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 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 Design
A few coin types show part of the design recessed below the field rather than raised. This was most common in Southern Italy during the 5th century BC and before.
The incuse design presented new challenges for mint engineers and continues to present grading challenges today on the $2 1/2 and $5 Indians. For instance, wear on these coins is hard to judge.
Note: Incuse design of obverse clearly visible under reverse design. Issued by Maxentius.
Unique Incuse Design The new designs broke completely with past tradition of raised relief coins. Pratt, his friend, recommended the new gold coins be "incuse" with designs recessed into the metal rather than raised.
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.
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 design of ...
This "Quarter Eagle" gold coin was the first intaglio or incuse design and represented a new approach for American coins.
Unlike the majority of coins that boast raised images, the effected elements noted above are incuse designs on this coin and are thus raised on the die.
Example: the $2 1/2 and $5 Indian US gold coins are incuse design. Rather than the design being raised up off of the surface of the coin, it is pressed into the metal.
1908-1929 Indian Head Type: Incuse designs. Weakness sometimes occurred at the highest part of the Indian's portrait and/or the highest area of the eagle's wing.
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.
hub: a die with an incuse design, used to make dies for coining.
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impaired Proof: a Proof coin that has been spent, cleaned, or otherwise damaged.
Die - A usually cylindrical piece of steel bearing at one end the incuse design of one side of a coin.
Die alignment - Term to indicate the relative position of the obverse and reverse dies.
A stage in the note printing process where black ink is transferred to the sheet of notes. Ink is applied to the metal plates and then wiped clear, remaining only in the incuse design.
Indian Gold Half Eagles and Quarter Eagles are almost impossible to find in MS grades due to the incuse design. After 1991, the flood gates opened and nearly every AU Indian Gold coin was being regraded as MS. Every series was being regraded.
Incuse - When the design of the coin is cut into the coin, it is said to be incuse. On incuse coins, the fields are the high points. Indian $2 ½ and $5 are examples of incuse designs on US coins.
up (or incused) during striking, such as the portrait, eagle, famous building, etc. Sometimes the term device is used to mean the mint mark or inscription, but usually the more specific term is used instead. Technically, any raised or incuse design ...
When a new blank is struck by this cap die with an incuse brockage image, the obverse will have a raised and spread image from that incuse design of the cap. This brockage impression is known as a counterbrockage.
If on the other hand, the design is beyond the die's face, (this is a hub or the master hub from which more dies can be made), the resultant coin will have an incuse or intaglio design. Two good examples of incuse designed coins are the quarter ...
designs and inscriptions all incuse or recessed in the surface, a radical departure from earlier United States circulating coinage. The highest areas of the new coins were the fields, traditionally the lowest areas on other coins. The incuse designs ...
 See also: Incuse, Coin, Gold, Struck, Silver
  
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