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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PyrotekNX, post: 156805, member: 3918&quot;]Dies have always been aligned by eyesight alone.&nbsp; A competent mint worker should be able to accurately align the dies.&nbsp;&nbsp; The method which a die is created prohibits adding such a notch or aligning key.</p><p><br /></p><p>As lawdogct already pointed out, adding a groove to the die will give it a point of falure.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t take much to crack a die right in half.&nbsp; Machining the die after it was already created is a bad idea, it could lose it&#039;s temper if it was overheated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Extreme die misalignment is somewhat rare.&nbsp; The average person never looks closely at their coins anyway.&nbsp; Most alignment problems are only found when a coin is put into a holder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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