working die: A metal punch that is used to impress images into coins; wrong-reading. See also die.
working hub: A metal punch used to produce "working dies"; right-reading. See also die and hub.
working die
A die prepared from a working hub and used to strike coins.
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Working Die - A die that is made from a working hub. Working dies are the dies which produce the actual coins.
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Working Die
This is a die that is made from a working hub. These are the dies which produce the actual coins.
Coin Collecting Terms beginning with the letter Y
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Working Dies
Dies taken from the master dies (hubs) and used in a coin press to actually stamp the coins. They are discarded and replaced as they wear out or break. See also die.
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WORKING DIE
Die used to strike coins directly as distinguished from a master die or developmental hubs.
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Working die
A die created from a working hub that is used to strike coins.
Working hub ...
WORKING DIE The die used for striking coins.
WORKING HUB The hub used for making working dies.
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working die
In coin collecting terms a metal punch that is used to impress images into coins.
working hub
A metal punch used to produce "working dies"; right-reading. See also die and hub.
Working Die
A die actually used to strike the coins. The dies are produced from the WORKING HUBS.
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Sometimes a working die may be worn or weakly formed but not so badly as to justify discarding it. The engraver may decide to enhance a letter or numeral by re-punching it and sometimes traces of the old feature are visible.
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The overdated Working Dies were re-processed by grinding down and polishing away as much of the overdate as was possible. Each die was identified, and re-worked to remove traces of the underlying "3" in the last numeral of the date.
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 ...
device punch A steel rod with a raised device on the end used to punch the element into a working die. This technique was used before hubbed dies became the norm.
master die A metal punch used to produce "working hubs," which are then used to produce working dies. See also die and hub. master hub A metal punch used to produce master dies. See also hub and master die. Matte Proof Especially U.S.
The Master Die is then used to form as many Working Hubs as needed through the same process, and then the Working Hubs are put through the same process to form the Working Dies. These Working Dies are the actual dies which will strike coins.
A raised V-shaped die break, the result of a V-shaped collapse inward on the obverse field of the working die, points toward 6:30 or so on the rim.
The master punch is used to produce a number of working dies which are the actual dies used to strike the Coins. The tremendous pressure applied to strike a coin means that the working die will wear off after a certain number of strikes.
The 1933/2 penny and the 1934/3 threepence comprise just a fraction of the total mintages for the year but enough to suggest that one or more overdate working dies were produced and used to make coins during those years.
Reich prepared a single steel punch of his Liberty bust, impressing it into each working die by blows of a small hammer. He then impressed each star by eye, seven on Liberty's left, six on her right, placing the date in the space below the bust.
On the small scale of the dime and half-dime, the obverse design, sans the 13 stars, only needed the date punched into the working die. This was accomplished in one blow with a punch containing all four digits.
Working hubs are used to make working dies which are used for minting coins.
Again, another area where doubled dies can occur. Depending where in this process doubled dies are created will affect the amount of coins struck from the die or dies.
During the process of preparing the working dies that were to be used for striking one cent coins, an error occurred. Working dies are made from steel blanks that receive several impressions from a master die (or hub as it is called).
The depth and strength of the design transfer to the working die can also impact how much detail and how evenly the coin's design is impressed into the working die.
Voigt imparted the chain to both working dies by repeated hand punching of a single link element.
Due to a phenomenon known as work hardening, (which causes the metal of the face of a die to become too hard and brittle to allow a complete image to be sunk into a die in one operation), several hubbings are required to produce working dies ...
The working hubs are then used to make working dies. With each step, the number goes up. The working dies are then used to strike coins. All dies are incuse, and all hubs look like the coin being struck (with the devices raised.) ...
a special extremely high-pressure "squeezing" process which employs tremendous hydraulic force, to create the numerous Working Hubs (commonly called simply hubs.) Then, from the tens of thousands of Working Hubs, the mint creates the Working Dies, ...
Double Struck - Said of any coin which has received two impressions from the working dies in accidentally imperfect alignment.
Double Die - A die that received one of its several blows from a hub or device punch in accidentally imperfect alignment.
hub: A right-reading, positive punch used to impress wrong-reading working dies.
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inaugural medal: A medal issued by the official inaugural committee commemorating the inauguration of a U.S. president.
A hub used to create the working dies.
worn die
A die that has lost its' detail from extended use.
Hub
Working hubs are produced from the master DIES. The working hubs are then used to make many working dies. Hubs are never used for the actual minting or striking coins as they have a raised image.
A steel rod with a device, lettering, date, star, or some other symbol on the end which was sunk into a working die by hammering on the opposite end of the rod.
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Bowers believes it to be a legitimate variety. "It looks like it was done deliberately by someone who had access to two working dies at Denver," he explained.
made a part of the working die, with the exception of the
mintmarks which were struck into the dies after they were produced. That
is where a collector will find variations. The coins with mintmark ...
Still later, the date was included in the master die, and all working dies were stamped with all information on them -including the date, design, and lettering. That is the way dies are produced today.
The $1 Panama Pacific trial piece was struck in silver at the Philadelphia mint at some unnamed date in the spring of 1915, before the working dies went to San Francisco.
From these, the final working dies that strike the coins are obtained.
 See also: Coin, Struck, Mint, Reverse, Revers
  
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