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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 201384, member: 6641&quot;]Wow,&nbsp; That seems a little fast until you look at the numbers they have to produce.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If the mint estimated production figures are correct (242,060,000 total) and they produce equal amounts of each PD (Presidential Dollar) and 1/3 Sacagawea&#039;s.&nbsp; That&#039;s a total of approx. 40.343 million total of each PD or 20.171 million per mint.&nbsp; At 1k per hour that&#039;s 14 days of nonstop production for one machine at each mint.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wonder how many machines they use to make these at each mint?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wonder if these are the same machines they need to make the Sacagawea?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Add shift changes, required maintenance, die care, material handling, production issues and anything else that might stop the presses and you chew up a lot of time.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again it is interesting to note that the production of the euro in large production has not had these issues that I am aware of.&nbsp; Taken from <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&amp;docid=f:publ145.109.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&amp;docid=f:publ145.109.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&amp;docid=f<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />ubl145.109.pdf</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="NewCenturySchlbk-Roman">PUBLIC LAW 109–145—DEC. 22, 2005</font></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="NewCenturySchlbk-Bold">SEC. 101. FINDINGS.</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="NewCenturySchlbk-Roman">(11) Placing inscriptions on the edge of coins, known as edge-incusing, is a hallmark of modern coinage and is common in large-volume production of coinage elsewhere in the world, such as the 2,700,000,000 2-Euro coins in circulation, but it has not been done on a large scale in United States coinage in recent years.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There has to be something they could, or could have learned from the Europeans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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