Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 509
a rim raised around the edges. Beyond themilling-machines stand the ten coining-presses.These presses are attended by women. Watchthis one near us. At her right hand is a box con-taining silver planchets, which are to be coinedinto fifty-cent pieces. On that round die, which 480 WHERE MONEY IS… … THE CUTTING-PRESS. with the most exquisite accuracy, is the sunkenimpression of the face. The woman gathers up a handful of the plan-chets and drops them one at a time into a brasstube, which they just fit. They slip down in thetube, and as the lowest planchet slides fromunder the tube, two small…
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