I totally missed this post at Christmas - I know I have read these pages before and each time a little more sticks (in my brain) on how the process works.
In the first link how the Philly mint makes coins on that page is mentions that they use a horizontal press and that SF uses the vertical press.
I thought they all used the vertical presses now.
We have had so many posts regarding the feeder finger die scratches on the LC's since late 2016 and plenty now on the 2017's and part of the unanswered questions with these scratches is how this would occur with a vertical press process?
From the Article in the first link.
Quote:
At the Philadelphia Mint, horizontal presses are used to strike coins for circulation. These means the obverse coin die, like the one below, and the reverse coin die lay horizontal. A blank is moved between them and gets pressed with 60 tons of pressure. An earlier article on CoinNews.net describes how the San Francisco Mint coin presses strike blanks with dies in vertical alignment.
So now is that question answered? It makes more sense of why we are seeing these types of die scratches because they are being created on the horizontal presses.
Point 2 about the library, I think our libraries are going by the wayside with the unlimited amount of information on the Internet. The kids today are missing out on so much and with the high stress level in schools today they really need a good place to go to relax. To go the library was a real treat and I never knew where to start. I grew up an avid reader and until kids and now poor vision I would read every chance I could. I couldn't wait to get a spare hour here and there to sit down and read a book, newspaper or even a magazine. It was a great little escape and stress reliever to sit outside or in my favorite chair with a book and a cup of coffee after work and read for a bit before making dinner. I couldn't wait to flip the page and then another and another (I must confess sometimes dinner was a bit late).
Posted 12/24/2016 01:41 am
