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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2415603, member: 1892"]If I were given the task to produce a nice Mercury replica <b>tonight</b> on my home PC, and I only had Heritage Archives images as a reference, and the resulting coin had to be struck smaller and thinner than the original although in a very easily-struck soft metal, what I produced in the next two hours would predominantly strike with full hair detail and full bands. <b>If</b> they slowed the machinery down to 60 per minute, and produced a faithful replica of my art. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that two hours would include traveling home from the bar where I'm watching the Phillies game.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would need an additional day (factoring hangover) to figure out how to teach them to produce the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Lord, guys. Look at an 1890's Morgan Proof, and see what we've lost in the last 100 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2415603, member: 1892"]If I were given the task to produce a nice Mercury replica [B]tonight[/B] on my home PC, and I only had Heritage Archives images as a reference, and the resulting coin had to be struck smaller and thinner than the original although in a very easily-struck soft metal, what I produced in the next two hours would predominantly strike with full hair detail and full bands. [B]If[/B] they slowed the machinery down to 60 per minute, and produced a faithful replica of my art. And that two hours would include traveling home from the bar where I'm watching the Phillies game. I would need an additional day (factoring hangover) to figure out how to teach them to produce the die. Good Lord, guys. Look at an 1890's Morgan Proof, and see what we've lost in the last 100 years.[/QUOTE]
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