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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dopeuser, post: 70928, member: 4130&quot;]This is hypothetical, but realistic, keeping in mind they minted a different design every month for 2 years from 1999 - 2000, so it would be difficult to reasonably predict at what point, or where, the die will become to deteriorate.</p><p>What happens sometimes, they guess theyre going to get 500,000 coins per die, and they need 10 million coins, so they get 20 dies. Now they actually start getting about 350,000 good coins per die. So they say, well lets push it and get it more like 400,000 even though some will look pretty bad. Now after after 15 dies have been gone through, and theres only 5 left, and you see theres no way you can make the order, the options are get/make new dies, or go through the ones that arent too bad, pick a few out, and repair and replate them, and put them back into production.</p><p>A new die is the proper thing to do, but it costs a lot, and takes time. Resurfacing and replating a die can be done in a day, and can be put right back in to production almost immediately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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