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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2107719, member: 112"]OK, so tell me the temperature needed to be produced to be able to melt copper, silver, gold, and copper nickel alloy. Then tell me what pressure would need to be applied to any of those materials in order to generate that temperature. </p><p><br /></p><p>You know what you're gonna find ? You're going to find that it can't be done in a coin press. </p><p><br /></p><p>But you really don't need to do any of that. Do you know why ? Because immediately after a coin is struck you can pick it up in your bare hand. And if the coin had reached the temperatures you're talking about, that would not be possible. So rather obviously it never reaches those temperatures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2107719, member: 112"]OK, so tell me the temperature needed to be produced to be able to melt copper, silver, gold, and copper nickel alloy. Then tell me what pressure would need to be applied to any of those materials in order to generate that temperature. You know what you're gonna find ? You're going to find that it can't be done in a coin press. But you really don't need to do any of that. Do you know why ? Because immediately after a coin is struck you can pick it up in your bare hand. And if the coin had reached the temperatures you're talking about, that would not be possible. So rather obviously it never reaches those temperatures.[/QUOTE]
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