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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 345819, member: 4626&quot;]Nice... I may have to start saving up for one lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>Still it has to be cheaper than an original.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess if you can&#039;t come up with any new ideas, you have to resurrect some old ones?&nbsp; Still, wouldn&#039;t mind having one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how the Mint plans to get around the same difficulties with producing an ultra-high-relief coin that they had in 1907?&nbsp; The problems they had producing it in the first place is why they reduced the relief.&nbsp; It was a time consuming process and put a lot of wear on the dies.&nbsp; If the coin is 24 carat gold, it will be softer than the originals at least, so may not wear the dies quite so quickly... but if they go with the originial relief it would still take quite a few strikes to fully strike the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not precisely a recreation of the 1907 piece either... it&#039;s actually going to be a 1908 with motto, struck in high relief, for sake of including &quot;In God We Trust&quot; on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Should be interesting to see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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