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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;usmc60, post: 2929078, member: 76739&quot;]Well stir to start off with, it&#039;s quite obvious you&#039;ve never worked with metals before. I spent half my life working with metals in various kinds of ways.</p><p>And Sir if you go back and you check on the minting process you will see that after the wash the blanks go to a drying process at this time the blanks are also heated, which occurs during the drying process.</p><p>Heating up the blanks makes a metal easier to work with this is all information that could be found out watched the little video that the other member has put up about the minting process.</p><p>Now only common sense tells you the first coins is just that the first coins that are struck by the press during the operation.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it seems your one of the many that have never come across one of these coins.</p><p>And Sir when you find one and examine it well I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me it looks like nobody uses any common sense anymore the first coin struck by the press are first strike coins no matter how you look at it. The first coin struck by the press it says it right there first struck or strike would they both apply.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Sir you&#039;re absolutely correct you&#039;re talking about maybe 10 at the most, out of thousands. And Sir these coins I have been finding and other members have been finding.</p><p>You see that big been up at the photo with a little circle. The little circle indicates the first 10 coins that are hit by the press end up at the very bottom of the bend.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Sir when you come across one of these coins you will know it. And out of hundreds of thousands sir you will know when you come across one of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I may have been mistaken by using the word chemical reaction and I admit it it may be the wrong term. What happens is a rearrangement of molecules within&nbsp; the metals, and if you work with metals you would have seen this a numerous amount of times.</p><p>Sir the only thing I will continue to say on this matter is to please do a little research about metals, and that easier way maybe you will understand is when you take a piece of 3 inch stock steel and apply a certain amount a heat to that steel,</p><p>it changes the molecules in the steel which hardens the steel. That&#039;s about the best example I can use.</p><p>Sir I only know about certain things because of actually lived it and worked it but you can find this information up by looking it up online.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sir you take this big been of coins.[ATTACH=full]710832[/ATTACH]</p><p>Now this big Ben of coins goes to another part of the mint where it&#039;s dumped into a big bowl where at this particular time these are bagged up into smaller bags. For resale they all come out in one big production been.</p><p>Then some of these coins go to make your mint sets.Because all uncirculated mint sets are is commercial coinage. I have found better coinage going through circulated coins that I have found in my mint sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will end this conversation by just saying those first few coin struck generally get put into circulation and maybe one day you&#039;ll be lucky to find one and you can start doing your own research of why that coin looks the way it does.</p><p>USMC60[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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