Which die engraver set the precedent for adding his initials to the die?
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I just started reading Crosby's Early Coins of America. I got as far as the picture on the back cover. 
The picture on the back shows a Continential Currency dollar, and the caption makes note of the fact that the initals "EG" are shown (which represent die cutter Elisha Gallaudet). Does anyone know (in the colonial series and the federal series), who was the first engraver to put his initials in the dies?
The picture on the back shows a Continential Currency dollar, and the caption makes note of the fact that the initals "EG" are shown (which represent die cutter Elisha Gallaudet). Does anyone know (in the colonial series and the federal series), who was the first engraver to put his initials in the dies? Always took candy from strangers
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Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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