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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 272948, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;m actually surprised they have done as well as they have.&nbsp; I think the country with the next highest mintage of coins made with a two part system like this is the British round pound.&nbsp; And most of their mintages are well under 100 million coins spread out over a 12 month period.&nbsp; We did 330 million in 3 months&nbsp; a rate twelve times as high.&nbsp; We are pushing the envelope as far as technology goes on these things.&nbsp; My understanding is that these coins are forced through the lettering machine at a rate of a thousand cons a minute.&nbsp; That is almost 17 coins a second.&nbsp; If the machine sputters or fails for one second per minute, in an hour you would have over a thousand error coins.&nbsp; Or say th setting that determines how far apart the pressure wheel is from the edge die and the distance increases one millimeter.&nbsp; That is enough to result in coins with extremely weak letters on the edge.&nbsp; For every minute that the operator doesn&#039;t notice it a thousand &quot;error&quot; coins are made.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the pressman doesn&#039;t &quot;hover&quot; over that machine, he has other duties and responsibilities as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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