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<p>[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 8039314, member: 3926"]<a href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/production-process/die-making" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/production-process/die-making" rel="nofollow">Die Making | U.S. Mint (usmint.gov)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"The dies are then placed in an oven to temper the metal. The dies go in the tempering oven twice, at temperatures up to 450 degrees. Tempering reduces the brittleness of the steel so that the die can strike hundreds of thousands of coins without breaking. The average life of a die varies based on the type of coin it strikes. The Mint uses penny dies to strike an average of one million pennies, but a dime die strikes only about 275,000 dimes."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 8039314, member: 3926"][URL='https://www.usmint.gov/learn/production-process/die-making']Die Making | U.S. Mint (usmint.gov)[/URL] "The dies are then placed in an oven to temper the metal. The dies go in the tempering oven twice, at temperatures up to 450 degrees. Tempering reduces the brittleness of the steel so that the die can strike hundreds of thousands of coins without breaking. The average life of a die varies based on the type of coin it strikes. The Mint uses penny dies to strike an average of one million pennies, but a dime die strikes only about 275,000 dimes."[/QUOTE]
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