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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 528637, member: 11521&quot;]Maybe the photo below will help you visualize the process. (The photo is from scvhistory.com.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A roll of cupro-nickel clad strip is being fed into a blanking machine. Note the copper core visible at the edge of the roll. The strip is a copper core that has clad layers on both sides. That is the way the Mint receives them from their supplier. (Note the additional roll in the lower-left of the photo.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin strip is fed into the blanking machine where dies punch out coin blanks from the strip (much like cutting out cookies or biscuits from dough that has been rolled out). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your un-clad blanks came from near the end of the strip where the clad layers were missing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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