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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 8513393, member: 90692&quot;][USER=120287]@dirdanic[/USER] …study the minting process at John Wexler’s website (doubleddie.com).</p><p><br /></p><p>When the coin press is operating it is striking almost 12 coins <b>per second.</b>&nbsp; Someone please correct me if that is a tad too high, but it is close.&nbsp; There is no second intentional strike for any coin produced as a business strike.&nbsp; Proofs <b>do </b>get more than one, but the two production processes are vastly different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the Mint uses <b>one</b> die pair for around 1 million coins or more, give or take a few thousand.&nbsp; This gives rise to hundreds of thousands of die deteriorated coins, in various stages of deterioration, depending on the aging of the die pair.</p><p><br /></p><p>Learning these processes will make you a better collector…good luck and happy hunting!…imo…Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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