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purelywasted Pillar of the Community Canada 1505 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 9:22 pm It seems surprising that you could buy something like that at auction, with modern CAM programs and high res scans, I wonder how difficult it would be to re-engineer a few dies and start making coins. On a US quarter, it is about 15% metal costs + premium for cost of blank. Buy a coin operated business, roll the new ones in with the ones collected and take them to the bank. At 10k coins/hour, it would add up quick. Report this Post to the Staff
purelywasted Pillar of the Community Canada 1505 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 9:24 pm And by CAM, I mean Computer Aided Machining, not the auto-tagged reference Report this Post to the Staff
JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21654 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 10:01 pm Thanks Pennyman- It is a great story. Report this Post to the Staff
Vancouver IslandCoinKid Forum Kid Canada 1074 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 10:31 pm wow that is cool~ thanks for sharing~ Report this Post to the Staff
MeadowviewCollector Pillar of the Community United States 4409 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 10:56 pm I hadn't seen this before thanks for sharing. Nothing surprises me with the US government. For a period of time it was possible to buy totally effaced State Quarter dies from the mint until they realized that it might not be a good idea to let something that valuable be out there. -MV Report this Post to the Staff
oih82w8 Pillar of the Community United States 7840 Posts	Posted 02/07/2015 11:17 pm I have seen this before, but it has been a while...thanks for the revisit! Report this Post to the Staff
Alexer Pillar of the Community Canada 2632 Posts	Posted 02/08/2015 11:18 am Thanks for all the comments except I dont know what 'faints' means..lol Kind of amazing being an older press yet capable of pumping out about 2.5 coins per second. Report this Post to the Staff
wazzappenning Valued Member Canada 329 Posts	Posted 02/08/2015 2:11 pm machinists would remake a bolt to exact same diameter and threads per inch etc. as for the function of the bolt, I believe it said it was an adjustment bolt which doesn't sound like it needs to be able to withstand pressures, but a machinist also looks at what the function of a part is and determines what material/strength is required. I can almost guarantee it would have worked. the only reason I could think of was that he wanted to keep it original, but the bolt was fabbed in germany, not remaining original stock, and he added/modded many other parts anyways. but yes thank you for the interesting read. I wonder where/if all the medallions were sold. Report this Post to the Staff
steve123 Pillar of the Community Canada 805 Posts	Posted 02/08/2015 7:21 pm Fantastic story! Thanks for sharing! Report this Post to the Staff
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