Birmingham Mint presses and six planchet presses for making blanks from strip metal. These were installed at the Bath Street works, and in that year trade tokens were struck for use in Australia. In 1851 coins were struck for Chile using the letter "H" as a mintmark. The same year copper planchets were made for the Royal Mint to make into pennies, halfpennies, farthings, half-farthings and quarter-farthings. In 1852 the Mint won a contract to produce a new series of coins for France. In this the Mint pioneered the minting of bronze. Ralph Heaton III (son of Ralph II) took key workers
They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To special hosted by comedian Thomas F. Wilson. Production They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To is a 1998 self-released album produced by American rock band Hoobustank, now known as Hoobastank. It is significantly different from "modern" Hoobastank as its songs fit more into the genre of funk metal rather than post-grunge, especially through extensive use of a saxophone. A few tracks, notably "Naked Jock Man", contain rapped vocals as well. A music video for Earthsick was filmed and was directed by Avi Roffman. The samples on tracks