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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 2546350, member: 36230&quot;]Unfortunately, I cannot speak from a knowledgable position on the subject. It&#039;s certainly interesting, but I had only ever concerned myself with the &quot;is&quot; and not so much the &quot;why&quot; when it comes to such things. I simply don&#039;t know the answer, but if we step back and take a look at the big picture, it&#039;s just hard to believe they had only only one punch at their disposal, with zero others even as backups, for so many years. Of course stranger things have happened...</p><p><br /></p><p>Questions that come to mind (again, from a position of ignorance) is what happened if one was dropped or somehow damaged? Although I assume less likely, what if somehow lost or misplaced?&nbsp; Government of not, the mint is still a production facility, and as such time has always been money. Sure, I can imagine there were ways around it and other things could&#039;ve been done when/if a single punch needed replaced, but this piece, to me at least, seems too important and inexpensive for any capable individual running such a facility to leave open to chance. If it was it would, again in my most humble opinion, reflect poorly on whoever was in charge of such things. We&#039;re not talking about a very high cost piece of machinery here, but a lowly punch; I can think of no logical or intelligent reason not to have at least a single backup.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also cannot help but to wonder, if one wished to do so, perhaps some sort of flaw or anomaly produced by a or the punch could be identified and this could be used to put the issue to rest?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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