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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1336817, member: 11521&quot;]That&#039;s right. If my memory serves me it has been over 150 years since the Mint has knowingly sold or discarded dies that have not been defaced. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, if my memory serves me, the faces of those dies were completely ground off. But the Chinese counterfeiters bought a number of those defaced dies, ground the faces of the dies down smooth and made new dies which they used to strike their counterfeit coins (US coins primarily). That was a bad move by the Mint because what the Chinese counterfeiters really needed was good die steel. What better die steel than defaced dies from the US Mint? That&#039;s one of the reasons the Mint no longer sells defaced dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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