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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1122877, member: 66&quot;]About 150 - 200 years.&nbsp; While the lettering was punched the early 1793 cents did have the portraits hand engraved into the dies and some of the hair details of the 1794 large cents were hand engraved into the dies.&nbsp; As late as 1800 some of the details for the reverse of the large cents were added to the dies by hand engraving.&nbsp; Many Conder tokens from the 1790&#039;s werefrom completely hand engraved dies including the lettering.&nbsp; Some of the cruder CWT&#039;s were a combination of punched and hand engraved dies.&nbsp; Hand punching of the lettering died out between 1836 and 1840.&nbsp; Hand punching of the dates disappeared between 1907 and 1909.&nbsp; Hand punching of mintmarks disappeared between 1985 and 1990.&nbsp; And the hand sculpturing of the clay and plaster models has died out in the past five years.&nbsp; Now the designs are created on a computer screen and the computer cuts the master hubs directly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every now and then you do still see some hand engraving done.&nbsp; When Ron Landis created his concept designs for the small sized golden dollars in 1999 and 2000 he used a punch to create the profile of Liberty, but the hair, lettering and much of the reverse designs were hand engraved into the dies.&nbsp; But for production coins no, there has been no hand engraving for a long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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