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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 554184, member: 66&quot;]The video is good but being the Canadian mint There are some differences between them and the US Mint.&nbsp; The annealing they show for the planchets is done before the cleaning not after.&nbsp; The US Mint is still in the process of introducing the computer aided engraving.&nbsp; The Canadian mint creates a negative Epoxy model does a reduction to brass and the a second reduction to create what they call a matrix but what we would call a master die.&nbsp; In the US we create a positive epoxy model and take it directly to coin size in one reduction step to create a master hub, what they call a punch.&nbsp; They mentioned that the lettering, date etc are added to the brass reduction.&nbsp; In the US this is all part of the large original model.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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