Incuse
Webster's 1913 dictionary defines "incuse" as "Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.
incuse: The opposite of bas-relief; design is recessed rather than raised. Used when referring to coins, medals, tokens and other metallic items.
Il s'agit apparemment d'un problème mécanique qui a imprimé la face commune avec la même face, incuse, au revers. Un flan est probablement resté collé dans la presse et un deuxième flan, celui-ci, a été introduit et est devenu une erreur de frappe.
Aegina AR Stater. 490-485 BC, Smooth shelled turtle / Incuse square of proto-skew pattern.
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Incuse - The design of a coin which has been impressed below the coin's surface. When the design is raised above the coins surface it is said to be in relief. An example of an incused design is the Indian head quarter and half eagles.
incuse design The intaglio design used on Indian Head quarter eagles and half eagles. These coins were struck from dies which had fields recessed, so that the devices - the areas usually raised - were recessed on the coins themselves.
incuse - Describes the portion of a coin's design that is pressed into the coins surface as opposed to raising above the surface. Incuse is opposite of relief. Example: the $2 1/2 and $5 Indian US gold coins are struck using and incuse design.
Incuse Stamping a recessed image into the surface of a coin as opposed to image rise in relief.
Ingot A bar or lump of precious metal to a standard weight.
Legend Inscription in a circle around the outside of the coin.
Incuse: Opposite of relief, the part of a coin's design that is pressed into the surface.
Inscription: Words stamped on a coin or medal.
Intrinsic value (bullion value): Current market value of the precious metal in a coin.
Incuse - The design of a coin that has been impressed below the coin’s surface, rather than raised above the surface.
Inscription - The lettering that runs across the fields of a coin.
incuse - struck in, denoting a coin type that is recessed into the surface of the coin rather than standing out in relief.
insula - Roman urban, multi-family dwelling, often occupying an entire block.
incuse: A design element on a coin that has been stamped below the surface of the coin. Opposite of raised design elements
inscription: words minted on a coin
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Incuse
Part of the coins design that has been impressed below the surface. When the design of the coin is cut into the coin instead of raised up. When the design is raised up above the coin's surface, it is said to be in relief.
Incuse - A element of design or lettering that is in a sunken form, ie not raised. A good example is the incuse lettering around the edge of a Modern British One pound or two pound coin.
incuse
Design elements are impressed into the surface (opposite of relief).
inscription
The legend or lettering on a coin.
Incuse
This term refers to lettering or a design on a coin or medal which is struck below the surrounding field rather that the more usual practice of raising it above the surface.
Ingot ...
Incuse - The opposite of relief design elements are impressed into the surface.
Intrinsic Value - The value of a coin's metal content.
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incuse
The opposite of reliefÑdesign elements are impressed into the surface.
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incuse: refers to designs or lettering that are impressed into a coin (instead of being raised). The best examples of this are the $2.5 and $5 Indian gold pieces issued from 1908-1929.
Incuse - A design which is sunk in rather than raised. Some initials on the coinage of William IV exist with both raised and incused lettering under the bust.
INCUSE
Coins with either obverse or reverse design sunk below the coin's surface. A design raised above the surface is in relief.
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Incuse design
The intaglio design used on Indian Head quarter eagles and half eagles. The devices on these coins were recessed to try and deter counterfeiting and improve durability.
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Incuse Millennium 50c Variety
In the year 2000 the Royal Australian mint released a commemorative 50c coin into circulation celebrating the the dawn of the new millennium.
Incuse square of eight triangles.
AR Euboic Stater.
The incuse on the reverse is of the early Aeginetic rather than of the Euboïc pattern, ...
Incuse star
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Incuse radiate head
Brockage - the reverse is an incuse representation of the obverse.
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Incuse Punch
Many early Greek designs were one sided with the reverse provided by an incuse punch. Some of these were plain while others were segmented or patterned. Division into four parts was particularly common.
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INCUSE Those parts of a coins design that are below the field. Opposite of relief.
INSCRIPTION Words and numerals on a coin. Inscriptions do not include dates, mintmarks, or designers initials.
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Incuse - A design sunk into a coin, as opposed to a raised design.
Inscription - All letters, words, or numbers appearing on a coin.
Key coin - A hard-to-get coin needed to complete a collection.
Incuse
Design elements of a coin that are impressed rather than in raised RELIEF.
Ingot
An oblong piece of cast metal, usually of gold or silver, with weight and FINENESS specified used in the production of coins.
Incuse
The part of a coin's design pressed below the coin's surface.
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"Incuse" means that the fine details of the Indian, the Eagle, and the writing are sunken into the gold surface.
The incuse characters of LAND OF 10,000 LAKES are affected by Strike Doubling
that takes on the appearance of hub doubling because those characters are incuse.
Note: Incuse design of obverse clearly visible under reverse design. Issued by Maxentius.
Fine, incuse lines found on some Proof coins, though rarely on business strikes, usually the result of polishing blanks to impart mirrorlike surfaces prior to striking.
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Fine, incuse lines found on coins, usually the result of polishing blanks to impart mirrorlike surfaces prior to striking.
plated
A term used to describe a coin to which a thin layer of metal has been applied.
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incuse - the part of a coin's design that is pressed into the surface. inscription - the words stamped (written) on a coin intrinsic value - the value of the precious metal that a coin is made of.
(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS-
(i) IN GENERAL- The inscription of the year of minting or issuance of the coin and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus Unum' and ‘In God We Trust' shall be edge-incused into the coin.
Brockage/Incuse
A punch-mark, a hollowed picture on the coin. In the ancient Greek (and Roman, other classic, etc.) coinage there're some coin-types inwich the reverse is the incuse obverse; ...
Detail of Incuse "B" (inverted B)
4. Raised "B"
Detail of Raised "B" (reverse types I and II) ...
Die
An INCUSE (depressed) design on the end of a short steel rod used to strike PLANCHETS to make coins. Prior to 1996, all dies were made at the Philadelphia mint ...
1. Something incused on a die is raised or incused on a coin?
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With a unique Incuse design collectors either appreciate them greatly or consider them unattractive. However their values in uncirculated condition indicate a huge demand. A short series with a few rarities, a loyal following and high minimum values.
These coins were incused when minted; that is, the die pattern was pressed into the planchet.
Eagles ($10)
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Normal issue with incuse edge inscription
Specimen issue, with a prooflike field in a red box.
Proof in sterling silver with incuse edge (rare)
Proof with raised edge lettering, in a red box.
Proof/pattern with finer edge lettering ...
Dies are usually engraved incuse, so that the devices and inscriptions they produce will be in relief.
die blob: An incuse mark, usually a contact mark on a working die that causes a blob to appear on any coin struck from it
die crack: A crack on the die which produces a raised line on the die it produces, or on the coins it strikes ...
brockage A brockage is a Mint error, an early capped die impression where a sharp incused image has been left on the next coin fed into the coining chamber.
normal (especially in facing heads). The photos that follow are close ups of the treatment given to eyes and features of the front of the face on select Greek coins. There seems to have been three ways to depict the pupil: a) A blank disk; b) incuse ...
head reverted to left/Star ornament in incuse, SG 3532; SNG Cop 944ff. Perfectly centered with nothing off, bold and detailed, light tone, one of the nicer specimens I have ever had, unusually nice, about Extrmemly Fine....SOLDPhoto
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appearing on a coin and their arrangement with respect to each other designer The creator of a coin design device A major design element, such as the bust of a person die A usually cylindrical piece of steel bearing at one end the incuse ...
They have rather rounded impressions and the reverse is simply the incuse of the obverse.
The designs were incuse or inset in the surface, with the field of the coin, normally the lowest part, being in the present instance the highest part. Incuse coins had been made in ancient times, but never before in circulating United States issues.
This example has incuse counterstamps on the obverse with T S above and B S below, on the reverse is the incuse counterstamp (struck upside down) HT. These counterstamps do not apear in Rulau, Standard Catalog of United Sates Tokens.
It features a right-facing head of Liberty with her hair bound up in a cap, a laurel wreath resting along her hairline and a diadem bearing the incused inscription LIBERTY over her brow. The designer's initial (B) is at the base of the neck.
The word LIBERTY is ornately cut with vertical ribs and is incuse on the ribbon. The stars on the headband of Miss Liberty are overly large and seem to be lightly secured.
Schjoth mentions two examples (S-185 with and S-184 without "WEI") with "SHIH" (10) as an incuse character on the reverse. We have not actually seen one of these, but the use of incuse characters is unusual.
This "Quarter Eagle" gold coin was the first intaglio or incuse design and represented a new approach for American coins.
50 pieces given an incuse stamp CAL over the eagle. This coinage was small, but it soon became obvious that the sheer mass of gold reaching the mints was going to require a much larger denomination than the quarter eagle, ...
50 and $5 gold coins (notable for their incuse, as opposed to high-relief designs).
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