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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 933262, member: 66&quot;]The problem is it is MUCH more difficult to create a new design plate for the currency than it is to create a new design die for the coinage.&nbsp; Creation of a new portrait can easily take a master intaglio steel plate engraver a year or more.&nbsp; It takes years of apprenticeship to become a master engraver and there aren&#039;t more than a handful of such engravers in the country.&nbsp; It is a dying art.&nbsp; Trying to change designs very often is not really possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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