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medal press A high-pressure coining press acquired by the U.S. Mint, circa 1854-1858, to strike medals, patterns, restrikes, and some regular-issue Proofs.
The first design, the so-called Extremely High Relief (or "Ultra High Relief"), required many blows on the medal press, with annealing between each impression, to strike up the coins properly.
Mint Director Frank Leach later recounted the production of these marvelous coins in his memoir, Recollections of an Old Newspaperman: "I had every medal press in the Philadelphia Mint put into operation on these coins with an extra force of workmen, ...
Therefore, using medal presses, hand-feeding the planchets, and striking each coin three times, the new MCMVII High Relief double eagles were created, and within the space of a few weeks some 11, ...
 See also: Medal, Mint, Struck, Coin, Coinage
  
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