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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2298161, member: 74300&quot;]I don&#039;t get why the craftman would ignore the fact a coin is stuck on the die. </p><p>Didn&#039;t they hammer one at a time? If nothing came out after hammering, wouldn&#039;t they had checked beneath the die and see if the coin was stuck? </p><p><br /></p><p>A side question, hopefully it&#039;s appropriate to ask here. </p><p>Some of these smaller denominations are really tiny, 6 or 7mm diameter.&nbsp; Were those produced in a miniature fashion, on table top with miniature tools? They couldn&#039;t had tweezers in those days (lack of elastic alloys), I wonder how they picked up small chunks of hot metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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