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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 5462851, member: 66"]They are made with dies, roller dies with one roller having the design engraved in it and the other die is smooth and helps press the coin into the design roller.</p><p><br /></p><p>They used to use a similar process to actually make coins only with designs on both rollers. Not in the US Mint, at least not for production. The Mint did have a prototype roller press in testing at the Philadelphia Mint in 1969. Some of the colonial coins were struck on rocker or roller presses as well. A rocker press is similar but instead of the rollers going all the way around it reciprocated with the roller going back and forth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 5462851, member: 66"]They are made with dies, roller dies with one roller having the design engraved in it and the other die is smooth and helps press the coin into the design roller. They used to use a similar process to actually make coins only with designs on both rollers. Not in the US Mint, at least not for production. The Mint did have a prototype roller press in testing at the Philadelphia Mint in 1969. Some of the colonial coins were struck on rocker or roller presses as well. A rocker press is similar but instead of the rollers going all the way around it reciprocated with the roller going back and forth.[/QUOTE]
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