Whew..... Ok..... I thought you knew what a church collection was... I was worried that maybe the rapture had happened and I missed the boat....
I actually hadn't thought about the coins being some special "church collection" type coin... I have never heard of such a thing if it exists....Did the mint do coinage for private parties like churches, civic groups, and such? I know they from time to time minted coins for foreign countries...maybe they did other stuff too?
#5475598 - 02/25/1209:23 AMRe: Vintage Video of Coin Production (start to finish)
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In some parts of the country, it was considered proper church etiquette to put only clean, new coins or crisp paper currency into the Sunday collection plate. The Methodist church I attended as a kid had this tradition and I was always given a shiny new quarter for the Sunday School collection plate. Now, I believe, they accept any grime encrusted cash, checks and electronic payments. Next will come bar coded communion wafers you can scan with your “iphone” and give while “friending” some stranger.
Lol...sadly, you may be a prophet as well as a expert in coin heritage. There is a group out there I read about from time to time in my engineering magazines that is pushing for all monetary exchanges to become electronic in nature, rendering currency obsolete. They recently had a meeting at a pizza place where all the group members "chipped in" to pay for the groups pizzas electronically. Apparently it was a bit of a chaotic experience, but they succeeded in their experiment. Now, I am not talking "swipe a card" transaction...this is an electronic replacement for currency....hang onto your everyday coinage everyone....it may ALL become collectible.
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[quote]You can get technical all you want but the blank is the same as a planchet. Which is what was rolled to the desired thickness. [quote] OK correct term nazi time again. A blank is NOT the same as a planchet. Ingots are rolled into strip, blanks are punched from strip, and blanks have their edge upset to become planchets ready for striking into coins.
I know it sounds like I am just nit-picking, but there are always new people coming by who are just learning and it leads to a lot less confusion if they don't have to unlearn the use of the wrong terms. It also leads to confusion when they ask questions, use the wrong terms in their question and can't get the answers they want because their questions are no properly understood. That is why I always try to stress the correct terms.
My point discussing the speed and the numbers they make today compared to back then is to show that if there were a lot of errors back it is surprising there are not so many more today.
As to my comment about what they were, thanks for mentioning the Maine half, I hadn't considered the Commemoratives.
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#5478031 - 02/26/1211:08 AMRe: Vintage Video of Coin Production (start to finish)
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"Back in the ol' days" people returned defective coins to the mint or their local bank - they weren't spendable money at the time. Mint archives contain lots of letters from people wanting to exchange a defective coin for a new one.
Also, the terms “blank” and “planchet” have been tossed around in older literature, such as Evans’ Mint Histories, and by casual observers. A blank cannot be used to strike a coin – all it will do is clog the press. This was one of the revelations from Franklin Peale when he designed the mint’s first knuckle-type coin presses. He had to also build the upsetting machine (borrowed from France) so that the new press could operate correctly.
