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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2571092, member: 112"]The things you're not thinking of is that those presses strike upwards of 600 coins per minute, that's 10 coins per second. And for an operator to recognize and catch the fact that some grease got on the dies he first has to see the coins that failed to be struck correctly as a result of that. Also realize that the operator doesn't just stand there and watch every coin as it is ejected from the press. In the first place it is impossible because they are coming faster than he can see them. In the second place they only check the coins at random. So, in between the time that the grease gets on the dies, and the operator catches it, how many coins do you think will be struck ? In less than 2 minutes there will be over a thousand of them. Now lastly, when the coins are struck through grease, they (meaning the mint) really don't care. Their job is to produce as many coins as possible as fast as possible. So they will not sort through every single coin in the bins searching for those struck through grease and remove them. They will just pass them on through the system. Yeah, once they do discover the problem they will stop the press, wipe the dies off, and start it back up again. But all those coins struck through grease will go out into circulation. Bottom line - coins still do get struck through grease, even today.[/QUOTE]