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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 758733, member: 66&quot;]Removal of the rays didn&#039;t really solve the striking problems.&nbsp; The series was plagued by weak strikes, dies cracking and very short die life right through to the end of the series.&nbsp; Even by the end of the series, die life was still only around 23,000 coins (average) per die pair.&nbsp; That is only about ten percent of that of the other denominations.&nbsp; But better than the 10 - 15,000 coins at the start of the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very short die lives meant though the the die shop was overworked trying to keep up with the demand for dies and a great many ies were put into production either in an &quot;unfinished&quot; state, or with errors that would ordinarily not allow them to be used.&nbsp; (The number of doubled and tripled dies, and badly repunched dates in this series is enormous.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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