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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1652249, member: 66&quot;]The coin does get hot during striking but not that hot. From images of the coins being struck you can see that it is not hot enough to cause a color change in the metal.&nbsp; It is enough to burn your hand directly after striking but not hot enough to raise a blister.&nbsp; So first degree burns but not second degree.&nbsp; Probably 200 degrees at the most.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know where the 38.5 mm diameter came from, the diameter is 38.1 mm.&nbsp; The variation in the Morgans posted earlier from greatest to smallest was .07 mm&nbsp; That is 3/1000ths of an inch.&nbsp; Three of the four are slightly smaller than the spec 38.1 mm, but the smallest one at 38.07 is only 1/1000th of and inch off.&nbsp; The .25 mm that the OP coin is off is 1/100 of an inch, ten times as much.&nbsp; (I would assume the one Morgan at 38.14 must have come from a worn collar, just over 1/1000 of an inch too large.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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