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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2711122, member: 66"]As I mentioned the obv of the chain cents had the busts hand engraved directly into the dies themselves. For the 1793 half cents, wreath cents and Liberty caps they were using a punch that contained the profile and part of the hair. I don't know if they cut that punch by hand as a relief positive or if they hand cut an incuse image and then used that to create the punch. Once they had the bust punch they used it to create the working dies with the hair work then being mostly done by hand engraving into the dies. But even with the chain cents the lettering, chain etc were created using punches. I don't think hand work on the hair ended until the 1795 caps, possibly the 1794 exact head of 95.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2711122, member: 66"]As I mentioned the obv of the chain cents had the busts hand engraved directly into the dies themselves. For the 1793 half cents, wreath cents and Liberty caps they were using a punch that contained the profile and part of the hair. I don't know if they cut that punch by hand as a relief positive or if they hand cut an incuse image and then used that to create the punch. Once they had the bust punch they used it to create the working dies with the hair work then being mostly done by hand engraving into the dies. But even with the chain cents the lettering, chain etc were created using punches. I don't think hand work on the hair ended until the 1795 caps, possibly the 1794 exact head of 95.[/QUOTE]
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