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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4997704, member: 19165&quot;]Randy, it really depends on what year you&#039;re talking about. There was a *lot* of technology change throughout the run of Seated coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re talking about a later date, then most of those worked from a Master Hub which was used to make working dies through a series of transfer processes. On these late date coins, all of the details were on the master and only the date was hand-punched. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re talking about very early date, then the central devices were hand punched into each die using a matrix, and then individual letter or number punches were used to hand create each die. For Seated coinage, they did not hand engrave each die - but they did punch each element by hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you&#039;re talking really early US mint (Flowing hair era, 1793-1800ish), those were individually hand engraved dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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