VIDEO: HISTORY OF DIE MAKING IN THE U.S.

 

Learn about what was required to make America's earliest money including:

• Concern of the Mint for quality of their coinage
• Challenge of coin die production
• Discovery of a Bust half die dated 1809 and the information learned from it
• Al Overton and his research on Bust halves
• Handwork on early coin dies and how they were produced
• Innovation of the reducing lathe
• The progression of hubbing and reduction of hand punching
• History of alloys and processing methods for steel

Speaker(s): Christopher Pilliod.

To watch the complete video, see:
History of Die Making in the United States (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/557185)

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