@RogerB said:
Attached is a PDF extract of the relevant pages requested above. I was going to add it to the 5:48PM post but the "Edit" button has vanished.... Is this another improvement along the lines of removing all the coin images from certain resources...
Reminds me of the chapter "A Workshop for Their Gain" in Don Taxay's "The U.S. Mint and Coinage," one of my favorite numismatic books. I highly commend it to those who have not read it.
TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
I think it was during this period of time at the U.S. Mint that they sold several old coin dies for scrap. Some of these dies were reused by private parties to make coins. The 1823 Large cent restrike is one such coin..
Die steel was commonly sold for scrap for many years. Usually dies were defaced. Later there were experiments to reuse old dies by softening, resurfacing and taking new hub impressions. This failed because the steel was inconsistent in alloy and surface cracks often extended into the shank causing the re-used die to split under pressure.
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Did not realize the Simon Gratz papers were at HSoP. Would definitely be worth looking through on the next trip to Philly.
Reminds me of the chapter "A Workshop for Their Gain" in Don Taxay's "The U.S. Mint and Coinage," one of my favorite numismatic books. I highly commend it to those who have not read it.
TD
I think it was during this period of time at the U.S. Mint that they sold several old coin dies for scrap. Some of these dies were reused by private parties to make coins. The 1823 Large cent restrike is one such coin..
Die steel was commonly sold for scrap for many years. Usually dies were defaced. Later there were experiments to reuse old dies by softening, resurfacing and taking new hub impressions. This failed because the steel was inconsistent in alloy and surface cracks often extended into the shank causing the re-used die to split under pressure.