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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1805951, member: 57463&quot;]It opens the door to a lot of humor...</p><p><br /></p><p>On the plane of reality, however, we have seen these kinds of errors in the past.&nbsp; Back in 1999 or 2000, the Mint of Portugal released a coin with Portugal misspelled.&nbsp; The problem is computer-aided-design and computer-aided-manufacturing (CAD/CAM). When the artist can send the work to the die-cutter without human intervention, mistakes do not get caught by watchful eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>... then think about your automobile with about 10,000 discrete parts...</p><p>(Or as more Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper told Johnny Carson one night: &quot;You are sitting on top of a rocket whose every component was built by the lowest bidder.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>We should be happy that all of our coins do not come out like this: Ueopa... Untied States of America... Canad-eh? ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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