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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3588861, member: 77814"]This article shows one of the photos from that article I mention above</p><p><a href="https://doubleddie.com/58243.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doubleddie.com/58243.html" rel="nofollow">https://doubleddie.com/58243.html</a></p><p>apparently from "<i>This photo, courtesy of Error Trends Coin Magazine (ETCM) and Arnold Margolis, shows a Mint engraver getting ready to punch a mint mark into a working die. The working die is held in a vise. His right hand is positioning the mint mark punch and the mallet that he will use to tap the mint mark punch into the die is being held in his left hand."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>So just search around for that ETCM article.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember the US MINT operations were all about making coins and improving the quality or speed and efficiency, etc. Not about making professional archival videos of the work that they did. Even the US MINTs videos today do not go in detail and miss a lot of the entire production process which varies some from mint to mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3588861, member: 77814"]This article shows one of the photos from that article I mention above [URL]https://doubleddie.com/58243.html[/URL] apparently from "[I]This photo, courtesy of Error Trends Coin Magazine (ETCM) and Arnold Margolis, shows a Mint engraver getting ready to punch a mint mark into a working die. The working die is held in a vise. His right hand is positioning the mint mark punch and the mallet that he will use to tap the mint mark punch into the die is being held in his left hand." [/I] So just search around for that ETCM article. Remember the US MINT operations were all about making coins and improving the quality or speed and efficiency, etc. Not about making professional archival videos of the work that they did. Even the US MINTs videos today do not go in detail and miss a lot of the entire production process which varies some from mint to mint.[/QUOTE]
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