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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4980069, member: 19463&quot;]I have never understood the resistance to the idea that several workers worked on the same die.&nbsp; I am not a mintmaster but, if I were, I would have (at least) four sets of engravers.&nbsp; One would do letters, a second would be beginners tasked with cutting rough portraits removing large amounts of metal so the third group of more experienced cutters could add the fine details.&nbsp; The last would do reverse scenes.&nbsp; We might add absolute beginners whose work would be polishing and layout lines. Managing the work of a team is always most efficient when individuals are tasked with jobs they can handle and work up to things of greater importance.&nbsp; Wasting the time of a master portrait cutter doing menial tasks just does not make sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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