Coin production, 19th century. Illustration of workers using a rotary device producing the pressure required to stamp designs onto coins. Artwork from

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Coin production, 19th century. Illustration of workers using a rotary device producing the pressure required to stamp designs onto coins. Artwork from volume 2 (1875) of a republication of 'Les Grandes Usines', a multi-volume work on French industry by journalist and author Julien Turgan (1824-1887).

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