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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 2380431, member: 20480&quot;]I must have missed that thread, as I recall no discussion of machinists being involved in the coining process.&nbsp; However, machinists contribute greatly to the production of coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Except for the coining dies, machinists make and / or maintain virtually every other piece of tooling used interior to the blanking presses, upsetting mills and coining presses.&nbsp; Upsetting dies, punches, alignment pins, die plates, ejectors, feeding fingers, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re a very busy crew, and certainly far from non-essential in the minting process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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