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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1777780, member: 66&quot;]The later 1798 and all of the 1800 large cent used reverse dies that were created from a complete master hub.&nbsp; But at the time they did not have the capability to create a complete die from a hub.&nbsp; The dies were never fully brought up and the shallowest features (berry and leaf stems and the wreath stems) often had to be touched up or completely cut by hand and in a few cases lettering repunched.&nbsp; The Mint REALLY wanted to be able to make fully hubbed dies.&nbsp; They experimented with it as early as 1793, and kept coming back to it.&nbsp; The Large cent reverses of 1798 and 1800 were their largest scale experiment, but they were never really successful until after the introduction of the steam press in 1836.&nbsp; (Although the hubbing probably had nothing to do with the steam press.&nbsp; But I believe they acquired a much larger medal press around that time which had the power needed to fully hub the dies.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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