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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 4709915, member: 105571"]1) Make it incuse.</p><p>2) Reduce the relief, making Liberty more shallow.</p><p>3) Dish the obverse while keeping Liberty's relief the same, thereby making Liberty stand less proudly in relation to the rim. </p><p>4) Substitute an incuse lettered or other device edge for the reeded edge. Would have made production more expensive requiring the use of a Castaigne-like machine.</p><p>5) To avoid a Castaigne machine and keep the closed collar production rate while using an incuse edge design, make the closed collar in two pieces that would mechanically be opened to eject the struck coin and then automatically closed before insertion of the new blank.</p><p>5) Make them out of nickel with a gold plug. (Ha, I can see all of the drilled dollars now!) Would have required significantly more powerful presses and the dies probably wouldn't last very long.</p><p>6) Quit throwing them willy-nilly into bags.</p><p>7) Never have made them in the first place since nobody wanted them and it was only a favor to the silver mining interests and states that they were minted at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on but I'm just getting more silly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 4709915, member: 105571"]1) Make it incuse. 2) Reduce the relief, making Liberty more shallow. 3) Dish the obverse while keeping Liberty's relief the same, thereby making Liberty stand less proudly in relation to the rim. 4) Substitute an incuse lettered or other device edge for the reeded edge. Would have made production more expensive requiring the use of a Castaigne-like machine. 5) To avoid a Castaigne machine and keep the closed collar production rate while using an incuse edge design, make the closed collar in two pieces that would mechanically be opened to eject the struck coin and then automatically closed before insertion of the new blank. 5) Make them out of nickel with a gold plug. (Ha, I can see all of the drilled dollars now!) Would have required significantly more powerful presses and the dies probably wouldn't last very long. 6) Quit throwing them willy-nilly into bags. 7) Never have made them in the first place since nobody wanted them and it was only a favor to the silver mining interests and states that they were minted at all. I could go on but I'm just getting more silly.[/QUOTE]
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