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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2358094, member: 68&quot;]The only way to make metal flow into deep designs more quickly is by increasing die pressure.&nbsp; With current steel strenghts and modulus of elasticity very little extra depth would be possible without greatly increasing die failure and die wear. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It can be done quite simply; remove the need for high speed.&nbsp; The pennies that are produced by the mint in enormous numbers every year require most of the productive capacuity of the mint.&nbsp; They crank them out by the countless billions and each one is a tiny little drag on the US economy.&nbsp; They are like throwing sand in the machinery.&nbsp; If this toxic slug were eliminated the mnint would have plenty of time to fill in all the deepest designs.&nbsp; They could even deepen the designs and the personnel and resources now wasted on pennies could be employed making better coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The modern world is geared toward waste and low quality.&nbsp; As bad as coins are from the mint ya&#039; shouldda seen them a few decades ago.&nbsp; Clad was being cranked out that was badly struck from worn dies that had been poorly hubbed.&nbsp; Today these are worn enough it can be hard to tell just how bad they were.&nbsp; People just didn&#039;t care what the coins looked like in 1970 so the mint didn&#039;t care either.&nbsp; Then when states quarters appeared the people did care and the mint has been improving quality for years now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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