Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — Why Coins Are Struck. [ARTICLE]

Why Coins Are Struck.

The principal reason that coins are struck and not cast is the well-known fact that molten metals contract on cooling. Thus counterfeit coins, which are always cast show fatal variations in size, which authentic stamped coins do not Secondly, it is impossible to get the same sharpness of delineation as in stamping and lastly, when the stamping machine is once set up the process of striking coins is infinitely cheaper and more rapid than that of casting ever could be.