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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2519278, member: 66&quot;]Last I knew the mint still did blanking of nickels through dollars in house.&nbsp; Copper plated cent planchets ready to strike have been provided by Jarden since 1982. (And it was a shipment of those planchet that got scattered in DE.) Dollar planchets were provided&nbsp; ready to strike by an outside firm for the first year or two of the Sac dollar (Olin Brass I believe).&nbsp; Since then they have just provided strip.</p><p><br /></p><p>The deal with the developing foundry to provide planchets would be a new contract and not something dealing with the current nickels.&nbsp; It may be possible that their equipment couldn&#039;t blank steel strip for nickels, And is it possible the steel nickel planchets would be barrel plated like the current cents?&nbsp; The Mint does not have the capability to do the barrel plating so if they did the blanking they would have to ship the planchets out again.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No not in use, the mint got rid of the last of their foundry equipment back in the 1970&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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