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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 6543790, member: 104064&quot;]I think &quot;engraved&quot; and &quot;cutting&quot; might be used in a generic sense, which doesn&#039;t necessarily exclude &quot;punching&quot;. I&#039;ll ask Roger. </p><p><br /></p><p>From Wexler &quot;How Dies Are Made&quot;: &quot;With the introduction of the Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents the Mint began placing the letters around the rim of the obverse onto the master die.&nbsp; To avoid the mistakes and inconsistencies that could occur if those letters were <b>punched </b>individually, a single <b>circular punch </b>contained the entire arrangement of letters so that they could all be impressed into the master die at one time.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This implies not only that the legend was punched, but that prior to this circular punch, letters were punched individually. There&#039;s also the widely accepted explanation for Longacre doubling... the punching. But of course this is a distraction from the topic of O.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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