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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2963670, member: 66&quot;]Very close.&nbsp; If you take a coin and squeeze it into a brass or possibly bronze plate it creates an incuse image of the coin as on a die.&nbsp; The squeezing also work hardens the brass.&nbsp; This brass &quot;did&quot; can then be used like a die to create a raised image on another coin, but the work hardened brass die is still nowhere near as hard as a steel die would be&nbsp; (Hence why it is called a soft die) so the raised image tends to be weaker and less distinct.&nbsp; Also being softer it does not flatten out the design on the coin it is being squeezed onto.&nbsp; (This also creates a second weaker incuse image in the brass die, so you can only use a soft die one or two times before it is destroyed.&nbsp; Then you have to start with a new brass plate.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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