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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1483947, member: 112&quot;]Think about it for a minute Jim. How long would it take for 1 person to polish just 1 die doing it by hand ? And do you think for even 1 second that a person could hold a piece of wood covered with emery paper completely flat and parallel with the face of a die and not round off the edges of the die or end up with the face of the die being lopsided ? You ever see any lopsided coins ? It&#039;s hard enough to get the dies adjusted so their faces are parallel with each other in the press as it is, now imagine how much more difficult that would be if the die faces were polished by hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there are/were probably some cases where they attempted to remove or polish out clash marks other forms of die damage in small areas by hand using small specialized tools. But I think that&#039;s probably about it. And no doubt, at some point in time they did polish dies by hand. But I think it likely that that went away around the same time that milled coinage came into being.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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