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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2438201, member: 4781&quot;]Weinman did not <i>engrave dies by hand</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weinman, like everyone else at the mint in the early 1900s, <i>sculpted</i> the designs in a large format relief (typically about 9 inches in diameter). This sculpting was done in clay and/or plaster. The plasters were then used for making galvanos which would be mounted on a reduction lathe to make a master hub.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the dies came from the master hub which was engraved by a machine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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