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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 25481421, member: 1765&quot;]So they say.&nbsp; As far as I know, the presses could coin dollars at 80 per minute.&nbsp; Perhaps this number is wrong for 1921, but that was the rate in 1878.&nbsp; A million coins is about 208 press-hours of minting.&nbsp; Running non-stop 12 hours a day, you&#039;d need 17.3 days to make a million dollars on a single press.&nbsp; You could do it in 4 with 5 presses.&nbsp; Not sure they had that many making dollars, but maybe they did.&nbsp; Then there&#039;s down-time for changing dies, which they had to do far more often than with the Morgan dollars, as they were only averaging 25,000 coins per die pair with the high relief design.&nbsp; 250,000 coins a day is pretty amazing if the number is correct and they were all minted in 1921.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And now they&#039;re in the form of 1919-(C) Indian Rupees.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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