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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 736007, member: 66&quot;]They had much more trouble with the Colton Brothers planchets that they acquired domestically.&nbsp; Usually they were very pleased with the Boulton planchets.&nbsp; There were a few times when they had problems but that was because the kegs of planchets had spent long periods sitting at dockside submerged in the bildgewater in the bottom of the ship.</p><p><br /></p><p>The kegs being very heavy were loaded on boad first and placed down in the bottom of the hold to act as ballast and they would often become submerged in seawater leaking in through the joints.&nbsp; But the ships would not sail until they were fully loaded and often the ship might sit at dockside for months before sailing.&nbsp; Then being at the bottom of the hold they were also the last things unloaded once they arrived.&nbsp; I believe one shipment actually sat in the hold of a ship waiting for something like eight months.&nbsp; I would imagine they were not in the best of shape upon their arrival at the Mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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