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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 295210, member: 66&quot;]The three cent silvers also show a tremendous number of die clashes as well.&nbsp; I would suspect that the reason for the clashes is twofold.&nbsp; One the extremelight weight and size of the coin created a lot of handling problems trying to get the planchets to feed properly.&nbsp; That resulted in a lot of misfeeds which allowed the dies to clash.&nbsp; Secondly because of the thinness of the planchets they used a higher than normal pressure for striking inorder to try and get the design struck up from the thin planchet.&nbsp; This high pressure resulted in greater damage to the dies when they did clash.&nbsp; So the dies would be more likely to show clashmarks than other denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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