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| Type | Document |
| Title | First Press |
| Country | United States |
| Description | [back] FIRST COINING PRESS our nation's first coinage was produced on a press such as this. The heavy end-weighted balanced lever drove the screw with suffficient force so that by the momentum of the weighted ends this quick threaded screw had the power to impress the blank end thus coin each piece. |
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| Image Collection | Bob Merchant Collection of U.S. Numismatic Postcards |