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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1865King, post: 7659940, member: 103207&quot;]I&#039;m attaching a picture of a metal the was struck on the first steam press in 1836.</p><p>This is the original die set.&nbsp; This set of dies were used to strike these metals from 1836 to about 1861.&nbsp; You can tell it&#039;s the original set because the date was changed on the original dies and as the die was used at some point the obverse die started to fail at 6 to 7 o&#039;clock.&nbsp; So even though it&#039;s not known how many were made it is known that these were struck with the first set of dies.&nbsp; The metal I posted could have been struck in 1836 or any time after until about 1861. There is no way to tell if it was struck in March of 1836 or later.[ATTACH=full]1316732[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1316731[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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