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<p>[QUOTE="jake1932, post: 3563104, member: 91934"]I don't have the specifics with regards to years in front of me (google it) but I understand that mint marks were manually punched into dies "by hand" for X amount of time. (And I am mainly a washington quarter collector so this observation doesn't apply to series outside of that). It is these specific mint marks (each one with its own style) that aid in die identification. One of my job duties includes "stamping" new oilfield equipment with high tensile dies to make inventory numbers on each piece of equipment. And wow! You should see how crooked, misplaced, doubled, etc. a stamp can be placed. This said, and just from my experience, I can understand how manual placement of mintmarks could have been such a headache! Every time I stamp a new number I'm thinking "I hope I don't make another RPM"... haha.. Thats my twenty five cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jake1932, post: 3563104, member: 91934"]I don't have the specifics with regards to years in front of me (google it) but I understand that mint marks were manually punched into dies "by hand" for X amount of time. (And I am mainly a washington quarter collector so this observation doesn't apply to series outside of that). It is these specific mint marks (each one with its own style) that aid in die identification. One of my job duties includes "stamping" new oilfield equipment with high tensile dies to make inventory numbers on each piece of equipment. And wow! You should see how crooked, misplaced, doubled, etc. a stamp can be placed. This said, and just from my experience, I can understand how manual placement of mintmarks could have been such a headache! Every time I stamp a new number I'm thinking "I hope I don't make another RPM"... haha.. Thats my twenty five cents.[/QUOTE]
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