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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 24669587, member: 93371&quot;]<b>Castaing machine</b> - A machine invented by French engineer Jean Castaing that added the <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/edge_lettering.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/edge_lettering.html" rel="nofollow">edge lettering</a> and <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/devices.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/devices.html" rel="nofollow">devices</a> to early U.S. coins before they were <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/struck.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/struck.html" rel="nofollow">struck</a>. These machines were used until the introduction of close <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/collar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/collar.html" rel="nofollow">collar</a> <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/dies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/dies.html" rel="nofollow">dies</a>, which applied the <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/edge_device.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/edge_device.html" rel="nofollow">edge device</a> during the <a href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/striking.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.mimi.hu/numismatic/striking.html" rel="nofollow">striking</a> process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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