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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3472312, member: 77814&quot;]Let&#039;s supposed a piece of metal fell into the horizontal minting press.</p><p><br /></p><p>The copper is much, much softer than the hardened steel dies used to mint them.</p><p>If a piece of metal did get in there it would have been pushed into the copper, and probably ejected with it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But there&#039;s really no way for the backside to be pushed out like that as the back/anvil die is much harder than the copper.&nbsp; Thus the copper will get pushed to the sides and not *into* the die creating the convex outward dome as the hardened steel die isn&#039;t going to &quot;flex&quot; for the much softer copper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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