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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1851480, member: 66&quot;]But the device in incuse and reversed.&nbsp; A die could not do that.&nbsp; A hub could but the hubs were not dated.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Transfered from what?&nbsp; Transfer it from a coin and you have the same problem as you would from any other die.&nbsp; Once you struck it into the blank you would have a raised non-reversed image.&nbsp; Frankly what you see here is how you would make a transfer die, by driving a coin into the die blank.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Before the screw press was invented there was a device called a drop press.&nbsp; Simple device just a weight, say 100 pounds) lifted by a pulley with a guide so it could only go up and down.&nbsp; Build something like that, lift the 100 pounds oh say three feet and drop them onto a large cent on a copper slug.&nbsp; It will hit with a pressure of over 30 tons per square inch.&nbsp; It would drive the cent into the slug very nicely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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