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Posted 08/23/2015 8:29 pm
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I'm not sure what you mean by "hand-stamped". There were Victoria series cents that had the master punch (that strikes and makes the working dies) with only the first 3 digits. Each partially finished working die had the last digit then handpunched in. To fully complete the working die, it took 2-3 blows, sometimes 4) with the hammer and punch after alternate courses of annealing the die and hardening the punch.
I'm not sure what you mean by "hand-stamped". There were Victoria series cents that had the master punch (that strikes and makes the working dies) with only the first 3 digits. Each partially finished working die had the last digit then handpunched in. To fully complete the working die, it took 2-3 blows, sometimes 4) with the hammer and punch after alternate courses of annealing the die and hardening the punch.
Thanks for the clarification okiecoiner. My reference to hand-stamped is not the correct terminology - hand-punched is indeed what I was referring to.
