Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-04

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The SILVER ingots then go TO the coin
er. They are first rolled into strips
aud as the rolling process is apt to
make the metal brittle. IT is anneaied
to soften it. Silver is annealed sim
ply by heating in an open wood fire,
and then being allowed to cool grad
ually. The silver dollar strips are
passed through the rolls nine or ten
times before the first annealing and
four or five times afterward. After
the last annealing the strips are run
through suffers which divide them
into drafts of the proper thickness
for the coins; and these, in their
turn, run through a steam punch
ing machine which cuts planchets
the proper size for the coin. :. From
$50 to 240 are cut in minute. As
the metal gets greasy during this
process, the planchets are then
dipped into a bath of diluted sui
phuric acid, which is too weak to act
upon the surface, but effectively re-
moves all foreign matter. The plan
chefs are then adjusted; that is to
soy, they are carefully weighed, and
all that are lacking in weight are
cast aside; such pieces are called
Sc lights" and "heavies" are the
pieces which weigh too much and
are fled off. The adjusting is done
by women. It is process which re-
quires much delicacy, and scales are
used which are sensitive to one six
ty-fourth of q grain. After the ad-
iusting is finished, the next opera
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curious sort Or machine. The edges
of the coin are thrown up and
grooved by the process. After an
other cleaning with sulphuric acid
The coins are for the die; both sides
If the coin are stamped at the same
lime. The dies are CYLINDRICAL blocks
If steel upon which are carved the
designs to be transferred by pressure
10 the coins. Art of a high order as
we'll as fine mechanism is conspicu-
ous in this part of the coming pro-
cess. The designer, III the case of a
new silver dollar, first draws his
lesign on paper, from which is made
, model in wax. of which a plaster
cast is taken, and from this cast an
is taken, upon which
careful revision is made with the
,raver. This electrotype, like th 9
model and cast which preceded it, is
three or four times larger than the
impression which appears on the
dollar. The design is transferred to
! steel die by using Hills reducing
constructed on the prin-
ciple of the pantograph. One arm
Of the instrument, with q blunt
points follows the lines on the cleo
trotype. while the other arm, to
which is q strong and rapidly revolv-
ing drill, reproduces the same lines
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taglio and thence on another block,
n hich is the parent die. After each
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