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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 26679670, member: 19165&quot;]No, not really... they made the model on a full size disk. They had a reducing lathe that worked on a ratio of gears. It took the original scale model and reduced it to whatever size they wanted, based on the gear ratio. They didn&#039;t have some guy in there carving a 10mm die!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why? The coin was 10mm. Your pictures against an arbitrary ruler tell us nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was 10mm. The smallest US issue was 14 mm, the 3 cent silver coin. For those who know, this is a very small coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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