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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 803636, member: 112&quot;]Yes, you do. And so does everybody else. There are not enough hours in the day or days in the year to produce the amount of coinage needed for commerce otherwise. The mints can barely keep up most years as it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember - they do not mint coins for collectors. They mint coins to be used as money in commerce - that is their (the mint&#039;s) primary mission.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Conder is quite correct. At the time coins that were high relief were being argued about and complained about, they didn&#039;t have counting machines. They didn&#039;t have paper coin rolls. The only way the banks had to count the coins accurately was to put them in stacks and then count the stacks. </p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to that (the early 1900&#039;s) it wasn&#039;t much of an issue, because banks did not have the huge quantities of coins to deal with. So coins could have higher relief. They had more time to count them and bag them and seal the bags. Then all they had to do was count the bags.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as business and commerce increased because of the huge influx of people from other countries, the huge increases in population in the cities - the amount of coins that businesses and banks had to count every single day increased as well. And as always - time is money. So coins had to become stackable. That meant high relief had to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>After that, it was a matter of being able to produce enough coins, being able to make the dies last long enough to keep costs down, changing metal content etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the way coins are made today, is the way it has to be. Or it just doesn&#039;t work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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