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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1164949, member: 66&quot;]Not when you consider all the effort it takes to produce them.&nbsp; they are not like a coin where you strike it your done with it.&nbsp; The relief on the medals is much higher and it can easily take seven or eight strikes to bring up the relief.&nbsp; And the medal has to be taken out of the press re annealed and cleaned between each strike.&nbsp; Annealing is a slow process&nbsp; so it can take several days to strike each medal.&nbsp; Then after the striking is done the medal has to be trimmed to remove the excess metal.&nbsp; Typically large medals like these are struck without a collar and then trimmed down to size.&nbsp; A final cleaning and sometimes a patina or coating has to be applied.&nbsp; from start to finish it could easily take five to seven days to make one of those medals.&nbsp; Then the cost of the oversize dies has to be allowed for as well.&nbsp; They have to be much more difficult to make than the dies for the smaller medals.&nbsp; With that relief I doubt the dies could be hubbed.&nbsp; More likely each of them has to be cut individually by the reducing machine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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