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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 7946790, member: 77639&quot;]The American Numismatic Society (ANS) was able to purchase most of the archives of the Medallic Art Company (MACO), which went bankrupt in 2016.&nbsp;&nbsp; MACO, which began in 1907, was one of the United States’ most prolific private mints.&nbsp; The archives consisted of dies, hubs, galvanos, die shells and more … 50,000 items in all.&nbsp; It was a huge amount in volume and weight.&nbsp; The ANS needed to organize it, then move most of it from MACO’s plant in Nevada, to ANS’s home in New York.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier, ANS was able to move papers and medals to their HQ in NYC.&nbsp; Medalcraft Inc. helped by moving the dies and hubs to their facility in Wisconsin and storing them for ANS.&nbsp; This left a couple hundred boxes of galvanos and die shells that needed to be moved to NYC.&nbsp; A galvano is a larger than life model made of metal of one side of a coin or medal, that is used for mounting into a reduction engraving machine in the die production process.&nbsp; A die shell is a 1-to-1 metal relief impressed from the die itself. </p><p><br /></p><p>The three links below are for a 3-part series on the massive move of galvanos and die shells from Nevada to ANS in NYC.&nbsp; Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-ii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-ii/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-ii/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-iii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-iii/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-iii/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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