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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 3056578, member: 16729&quot;]These and MANY, MANY more countries&#039; coins in the 1910s to 1960s period.&nbsp; Not so much anymore. </p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough, it&#039;s South Korea that has picked up much of this work, making a lot of other countries&#039; coins and banknotes nowadays (Israel, Peru, etc).&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The South Korean coin-blank manufacturer, Poongsan, makes the majority of the world&#039;s coin blanks.&nbsp; Poongsan also makes the blanks for EVERY one of South Korea&#039;s medals and coins, so much so, that some people wonder whether they live up to their World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a PDF from the US Mint that lists all the countries, coins, and details of the coins.&nbsp; I got that list here from a CT contributor.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I think because of the information in this PDF, a numismatic writer caught onto the idea that in 1960, the US Mint was making that year&#039;s Lincoln cents, then stopped, switched out the dies, and started minting the South Korean Hwan coins and Liberian coins, and before they could switch back to the Lincoln cents to finish out that year&#039;s mintage of cents, they broke the Lincoln cent master die (or some piece of tool steel), necessitating the pressing of a new hub.&nbsp; According to the author, they had problems (blobbing) with the loops and circles in the 9s and 0s of the date &quot;1960&quot; on the first dies, so they just decided to re-cut the date with bigger 9s and 0s into the new dies.&nbsp; This accounts for the small date (early) and Large Date (later) varieties of the 1960 Lincoln Cent.&nbsp; Or so the author says.&nbsp; This article was in the February 2017 edition of COINage Magazine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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