Wait! I think I saw a "Property US Mint" label on the press! ALL of the coins are now Rare Mint Errors! Half Cents! Half Dimes! Half Nickels! Half... other coins I don't really recognize. And the REALLY interesting 19(?) coin mated pair... wait... what would 19 coins be... I can't find anything online, so I'll call it a "YokoCluster!"
Anyone interested in a custom YokoCluster? Nineteen (or twenty) coins of the date and denomination of your choice! Price is available on request. Now all I need is a 100 ton press and a brass plaque with "US Mint" on it! Right?
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
I personally thought he was crazy for reaching there with his bare fingers. Those things probably have really sharp edges, and/or are probably really hot. Not exactly something you'd want to touch.
Thanks for posting this. When I was a boy, I used to, whenever the opportunity presented itself, I would lay Cents on the railroad tracks and hope to find the newly Minted via Locomotive crushed coins. That ejection process would sometimes spit a coin out fifty feet or more. Whilst being accosted by a rail Bull, he informed me that a single coin on the tracks is enough to actually derail a locomotive and I never did it again.
Probably not that hot, the force was applied over a period of 23 seconds, there was plenty of time for any energy converted to heat to dissipate. When a coin is struck in a coining press basically the same tonnage of force is applied over a period of .07 seconds and the coin coming out of the press, while warm enough to be uncomfortable, aren't hot enough to really burn you.
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