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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Info Sponge, post: 901550, member: 20538&quot;]Yes, annealing and reinsertion into the press preserving the alignment: <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/a/uhr_saints.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/a/uhr_saints.htm" rel="nofollow">http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/a/uhr_saints.htm</a>. &quot;According to Walter Breen&#039;s <i>Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and&nbsp; Colonial Coins</i>, it took nine striking blows of the coining press, at&nbsp; an immense hydraulic force of 172 tons of pressure, to bring up the&nbsp; detail on the original UHR Double Eagles&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the original was kind of the SR-71 of coinage: a brilliant example of how far you can push technological achievement and destroy economics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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