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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;joecoin, post: 11748, member: 999&quot;]The reason for the shortage was an embargo enacted by Great Britain. The US mint aquired all of its blank planchets from the firm of Boulton &amp; Watt in Birmingham, England. All of the planchets on hand were used up by the end of 1814. In fact, the mint had been buying scrap copper on the open market and rolling it and making planchets in house. Some of these coins are very dark.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1816 the embargo was lifted and production resumed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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