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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 266193, member: 4703&quot;]Mint officials have been repeatedly quoted as saying that the edge lettering is applied after the basic strike of obverse and reverse, and that circulation coins are randomly fed into the lettering mechanism, so the lettering will statistically be oriented about 50-50.&nbsp; The proof coins are handled differently, and will all have the lettering upright when the coin is face up.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that there have been well over a dozen threads on this subject in this forum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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