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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldCoinLover, post: 700316, member: 4336&quot;]Beginning to make sense now.</p><p><br /></p><p>So basically for early die varietes, such as the 1836 $2.50 classic head. You have blank soft die, it is placed into a hub which gives it the design. The designs are incuse into the die. The flat parts of the die where the polish is where the the recessed areas are in the case of an incuse design coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, before the coin is struck, certain details are hand punched into the die with punches, some slightly different on some dies, creating die varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still need to draw pictures to figure out how this would look on an incuse design, versus a regular relief coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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