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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 595464, member: 66&quot;]Actually Raider got it right, it was the result of improper annealing of the Planchets.&nbsp; This is according to Roger Burdette and he has seen and quoted from the New Orleans Mint documents in the National Archives.&nbsp; The striking problem had been noted and investigators from Philadelphia determined that the cause was too many planchets being fed into the annealing furnaces and insufficient anealing of the planchets.&nbsp; This left the planchets harder than they should have been and they would not strike up.&nbsp; They even INCREASED the stiking pressure in an attempt to improve the strikes but that just resulted in the dies wearing ou or breaking faster.&nbsp; When the planchets were properly annealed they struck up fine and the problem was solved for awhile.&nbsp; But as demand for striking increased the went back to the &quot;high speed&quot; annealing again, and the poor strikes returned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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