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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 163350" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Abbey, can you tell what kind of metal it is made out of? A lot of these souveniers from that era were made of aluminum.</p><p> </p><p>If you look very closely at the lettering on the names, they appear to have been stamped with some type of moveable type. Each individual letter is in it's own little square, surrounded by the little dots. Years ago when I worked at a big newspaper they still had a few of the old linotype machines around and that's how they worked. They had big racks of individual letters. They looked a lot like the keys on an old manual typewriter. The typesetter would line each individual letter, punctuation mark and space up in a frame, then lock it in place before the print could be made. In the case of these coins, the letter would be a depression in the block and the dots would be sticking up, so when it was stamped in to the metal, the letters would be raised up.</p><p> </p><p>One curious thing ... there is a period after "LEX". Instead of a name, could that possibly be an abbreviation for something, maybe a town or a county?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 163350, member: 1883"] Abbey, can you tell what kind of metal it is made out of? A lot of these souveniers from that era were made of aluminum. If you look very closely at the lettering on the names, they appear to have been stamped with some type of moveable type. Each individual letter is in it's own little square, surrounded by the little dots. Years ago when I worked at a big newspaper they still had a few of the old linotype machines around and that's how they worked. They had big racks of individual letters. They looked a lot like the keys on an old manual typewriter. The typesetter would line each individual letter, punctuation mark and space up in a frame, then lock it in place before the print could be made. In the case of these coins, the letter would be a depression in the block and the dots would be sticking up, so when it was stamped in to the metal, the letters would be raised up. One curious thing ... there is a period after "LEX". Instead of a name, could that possibly be an abbreviation for something, maybe a town or a county? [/QUOTE]
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