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<p>[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2467532, member: 22602"]I appreciate your answer in that thread, along with some comments by others, that give some historical background for dates on coins. But these answers don't really address our more contemporary situation. Why does more recent coinage—say, US coinage since the advent of the Industrial Revolution or the 20th Century—need to have dates? As the OP asked, why go through the expense of changing dies on each denomination every year to reflect a new date?</p><p><br /></p><p>Your answer that "our law requires it" doesn't really address the underlying reasons or needs of such a law in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll speculate again that the mint, er, "updates" its coinage 1), because new dies are, relatively speaking, not that expensive to create, 2), because it helps them to monitor production and loss and 3), largely due to inertia (or "tradition").[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2467532, member: 22602"]I appreciate your answer in that thread, along with some comments by others, that give some historical background for dates on coins. But these answers don't really address our more contemporary situation. Why does more recent coinage—say, US coinage since the advent of the Industrial Revolution or the 20th Century—need to have dates? As the OP asked, why go through the expense of changing dies on each denomination every year to reflect a new date? Your answer that "our law requires it" doesn't really address the underlying reasons or needs of such a law in the first place. I'll speculate again that the mint, er, "updates" its coinage 1), because new dies are, relatively speaking, not that expensive to create, 2), because it helps them to monitor production and loss and 3), largely due to inertia (or "tradition").[/QUOTE]
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