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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tlasch, post: 1122271, member: 27272&quot;]While I agree with you completely hobo, </p><p><br /></p><p>A video I watched on the US mint (from the history channel) went over the fact that they make it a goal to ensure the relief of a coin is not thicker than a piece of paper so&nbsp; that the coins stack better.</p><p><br /></p><p>They still had thicker reliefs back then take for example the nickel (25%ni 75%cu) Back then the relief was much higher whereas today (it&#039;s the same composition) and the relief is lower. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would imagine however, that pure nickel (used to clad coins) might be harder than ni-cu alloy. </p><p><br /></p><p>GDJMsP from my understanding I thought they would hand engrave a large (master die) and use that&nbsp; French Reducing machine to shrink the details in the die. (We have been using that for 100&#039;s of years) </p><p>Now they use a computer to create that hand engraved large die, touch it up and use the reducing machine to shrink it[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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