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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 565950, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Scientifically I would half way agree but,</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Scientifically I would tend to agree but, &quot;that specific location&quot; is not Nearly as easily detectable as other die markers or the D/D itself.&nbsp; Yes the field is large and many, many dies are made several thousand in recent times but as often as they are re-punched, they also got it pretty darn close.</p><p>Remembering the mint is a factory that produces it&#039;s machined parts as good as it can, or in this case could.&nbsp; Many technicians got pretty good at it - as anyone would if they did it thousands of times.&nbsp; I have not been to the die shop as Margolis and others have but have the books and I&#039;ve tried to imagine how it would be to do this operation - remembering the die is a negative (encuse) image.&nbsp; Also keeping in mind that it may take several blows from the punch to fully seat the &quot;D&quot; or &quot;S&quot;.&nbsp; Lets not forget the finished working die while a negative design is also slightly conical so the punch (as I understand it) would need to be slightly &quot;rocked&quot; into the die - not an easy task but it&#039;s not heart surgery either mint workers should have been able to perform this task pretty darn good especially with experience.&nbsp; There is only 2 things that can explain all the RPM&#039;s that we have, especially in the early sixties is, 1. they did not make it a priority, or 2. they had many differnt people doing the job, ( I guess that could qualify as the same answer if you get my meaning).</p><p>After many discussion&#039;s with Bordner, Potter, Crawford, and others is - If they got it working well into the late 1970&#039;s and 1980&#039;s they should have had at least the knowledge back in the sixties and before to do the same thing.</p><p>I would not want to have to attribute by location of mint-mark alone within the field, for me, that just would not give enough data to do the job right but in theory I think what you are saying is true.&nbsp; To do so as you suggest you would have to have some kind of template that would sit stationary with like 30x and study each coins mintmark location - thank goodness we have easier ways to do it.</p><p>Sorry I got a little long winded,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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