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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 202506, member: 66&quot;]My calculations show that the P &amp; D mints could produce the 300 million president dollars using four presses at each mint in 58 working days working two shifts a day.&nbsp; (The mint used to do three shifts, I don&#039;t know if they still do.)&nbsp; The real problem that the mints have is not the president dollars but the one cent piece.&nbsp; Something like three quarters of their production capacity is dedicated to striking a coin which has almost no purchasing power, but which costs more than its face value to produce and is then mostly used one time before it disappears into a jar somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>Elimination of the cent would free up a tremendous amount of production capacity.&nbsp; This capicity could then be redirected to other coinage allowing it to be struck at a slower speed&nbsp; with no loss of mintage capacity.&nbsp; The added advantage of the slow speed striking would be the possibility of a return to a higher relief design.&nbsp; (The current very low relief is a result of the high speed striking because it does not allow the time for the metal flow into a higher relief design.&nbsp; It takes a certain amout of time for the metal to flow and fill a design, but the current striking speeds are faster than the flow rate.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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