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<p>[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2569585, member: 59677"]Dave, give the poor guy some credit.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint's die makers have good light, reducing lathes, straight edges, clean smooth plaster, an annealing oven for making hubs and dies, etc. They have blank cutting presses, coining presses and lots of other professional tools.</p><p><br /></p><p>The counterfeiter is sitting in the back room of a squalid tenement, cutting by hand and the light of a tallow drip. It's amazing he still has his thumbs, let alone that the counterfeit coin looks a bit like the original. Then he throws the die into the fire and fishes it out to quench it in the, um, being delicate here, chamber pot.</p><p><br /></p><p>He has to make coin blanks by cutting them out of sheets of German Silver or low purity silver (maybe using some kind of a round die to punch them out).</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, he has to fit the two dies into some kind of jig with a blank between them and hit it one solid blow with a sledge hammer.</p><p><br /></p><p>All to make a 3 cent coin out of 1 cent of raw materials. Which he sells to a distributor at 2c each so they can pass them as 3c.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wouldn't you drink? Heavily? Cheap rot-gut whisky???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2569585, member: 59677"]Dave, give the poor guy some credit. The mint's die makers have good light, reducing lathes, straight edges, clean smooth plaster, an annealing oven for making hubs and dies, etc. They have blank cutting presses, coining presses and lots of other professional tools. The counterfeiter is sitting in the back room of a squalid tenement, cutting by hand and the light of a tallow drip. It's amazing he still has his thumbs, let alone that the counterfeit coin looks a bit like the original. Then he throws the die into the fire and fishes it out to quench it in the, um, being delicate here, chamber pot. He has to make coin blanks by cutting them out of sheets of German Silver or low purity silver (maybe using some kind of a round die to punch them out). Finally, he has to fit the two dies into some kind of jig with a blank between them and hit it one solid blow with a sledge hammer. All to make a 3 cent coin out of 1 cent of raw materials. Which he sells to a distributor at 2c each so they can pass them as 3c. Wouldn't you drink? Heavily? Cheap rot-gut whisky???[/QUOTE]
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