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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 47, November 5, 2005, Article 15
  

  UNDER A LITTLE PRESSURE, LATELY?
  

  John Regitko questioned the following passage in a newspaper
  article quoted in last week's issue: "Ken Hopple, chief coiner
  of Coin Press No. 1 at the Carson City Mint, said it takes 120
  pounds of pressure to strike each coin." He writes: Are you
  sure that's pounds, not tons?"
  

  Well, I'm sure “tons” is what was meant, and I’m sorry I
  didn’t catch this when I first published the item. The
  reporter probably misheard or misunderstood. Discussing
  another newspaper article quoted last week, Joel Orosz
  writes: "I saw that quarters article in the Kalamazoo
  Gazette. Despite the usual quota of numismatic inaccuracies,
  it was an entertaining piece. It is frightening to me,
  however, that whenever I read a story in the popular press
  on a subject about which I know something, like numismatics
  or philanthropy, it is full of errors. It makes me wonder
  how many inaccuracies I am accepting as truth for those
  subjects about which I am not expert!"
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n47a15.html

Date published

• 2005-11-06

Volume

• 8

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