expected demands for the bacoliary Coinage)
In the first place the Criving presses similar to Prose supplied to The Madras and Sydney Mints are capable of coining dollars, though under very great disadvantages. The diameter of the piece coupled with the large proportion of depressed surface on each side, the interlocked borders & great Br... require a force to be exerted ...thaw these presses fairly capable of... to illustrate more fully my meaning I may refer to Plate MAA 246, a few days since where half dollars (a piece better adapted to the powers of Fries) were passing through consecutively 13,000 pieces, the dies became so heated that it grew unsafe to produce further.
In coining with these presses 5 dollars, 6,000 were coined, many could be safely passed through each press during hours of ordinary working. The French dies (which are capable of producing 3000 per hour) recently executed performs the work...