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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4700102, member: 73489"]<b>Roger Burdette in his SAINT-GAUDENS book goes into the reasons for poor and well-struck coins (obviously, those coins are gold not silver).</b> You would think that with minting presses applying 50-150 tons of pressure that there wouldn't be much variation in strikes. It's not like a hand-struck item where one day your arm applies a bit more pressure or force or soemthing like that.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, I have to check, but as I recall it wasn't any variation in the gold or the mint press tolerances or variations that caused "good" and "bad" strikes...it was the quality of the dies that was key to well-struck and poorly-struck coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll have to go back and check, but I remember it clearly answered the question of why some years were good and some bad -- at least for gold Saints. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4700102, member: 73489"][B]Roger Burdette in his SAINT-GAUDENS book goes into the reasons for poor and well-struck coins (obviously, those coins are gold not silver).[/B] You would think that with minting presses applying 50-150 tons of pressure that there wouldn't be much variation in strikes. It's not like a hand-struck item where one day your arm applies a bit more pressure or force or soemthing like that.:D In fact, I have to check, but as I recall it wasn't any variation in the gold or the mint press tolerances or variations that caused "good" and "bad" strikes...it was the quality of the dies that was key to well-struck and poorly-struck coins. I'll have to go back and check, but I remember it clearly answered the question of why some years were good and some bad -- at least for gold Saints. :D[/QUOTE]
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