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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4851119, member: 105098&quot;]Yeppers. West Point has vertical presses, Denver and Philadelphia have horizontal presses. </p><p>ALSO, West Point is normally striking bullion and proof coins, which are normally a higher pressure and this could also be the cause of the better strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as W quarters go, they strike 2 million of each design maximum.</p><p>&nbsp;while I have for 2019 Lowell design the mintages are:</p><p>P = 165,800,000</p><p>D = 182,200,000</p><p><br /></p><p>there&#039;s a few factors at work here. Different presses, possibly different pressure settings, much less quantity produced and slower production, and likely an attention to detail the mass producers don&#039;t have.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I can find,&nbsp; San Francisco has Graebener GMP 360 TK press with the dies oriented vertically as well.</p><p>I am not sure of the model press that West Point Mint uses, but it is a Grabener also. It&#039;s likely the same model though, I&#039;m just having difficulty confirming that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philadelphia and Denver use Schuler horizontal presses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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