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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 2020215, member: 19065"]"[<a href="http://cfile10.uf.tistory.com/image/2120AE4C5328E6010C96D4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cfile10.uf.tistory.com/image/2120AE4C5328E6010C96D4" rel="nofollow">...</a>] Rumor has it amongst MLB insiders that sometime during the 2015 season, there will be a "pitchers" series of domed coins released from the U.S. Mint. These coins are to reproduce the stance of major league pitchers on the pitching mound. The coin's design will feature the popular domed-shaped coin first released to coincide with the Baseball Hall of Fame's 75th Anniversary earlier this year. However, rather than a ball and glove motif, the new coins will show the imprint of the pitchers shoes on the mound, featured on the convex side of the coin. Plans haven't yet been finalized for a reverse design, but player statistics similar to those found on the reverse side of baseball cards are being considered. No word from the Mint in terms of an official press release nor any details of mintage limits is known. In the off-season, Mint engravers are running tests, working with moulds taken from casts of pitching mounds and run through the reducing pantograph machine to get the designs perfected for coining these unique pieces so beloved by sports fans and coin collectors in 2014." Of course this is only in jest! \(OvO)/[/QUOTE]