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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 958440, member: 6229&quot;]Hey Condor101:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Once, again, I have to thank you for sharing. As to</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Director Patterson wanted to impress President Jefferson so he ordered Boulton and Watt to supply planchets for the 1808 Large Cents in as pure a Copper composition as was possible (very few impurities). </span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&quot;Boulton and Watt had been supplying copper planchets to the mint since 1797.&quot;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Yes, they did, but not in the fineness (purity).&nbsp; Thus the excessive wear on circulated coins.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Clinker</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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