Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 164
COIN AND MEDAL STRIKING. use of a drop weight. (We are not now speaking of the Mintswhere steam power and coin presses are in use, but of the die-cutting and striking establishments of New York, Waterbury, etc.)The drop is a heavy iron weight, in the bottom of which one ofthe dies is fixed. The…
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