Died Weld Repairs And Patches

here is the T in Monticello. as you can see this die was damaged. a piece missing and plus doubled punched. you can see the copper coming through on the surface. wow like seeing the varnish.

Agreed, welding a tempered die would completely ruin the heat treatment of the die. I was a machinist for years and worked with hundreds of different dies. I have also wire welded hundreds of parts to be put back into service. There is no stick or wire welder with thin enough wire to patch a die. I am not being disrespectful but this comes from years and years of working with such things.

The first image you posted appears to be a linear plating blister above an "N" (the image is sideways).

I wonder if the first images of the Jefferson nickel are showing evidence of a clash?

what do you think.

here is some more welds. I know you guys know this. but see when you get a die chip. it leaves a hole in the die. so what the mints have been doing is repairing die chip holes plus some deformations. they also use the welds to strengthen and make certain edges harder. we have done a lot of that. when we were pressing steel. there is always wear points weld can be used to strengthen them. I know the welders here will know that. we also used the same practice on bulldozer blades, excavator buckets and excavator rock hammers. all we were trying to do was make the attachments last longer. that is the same idea at the mints with there dies.

Canadian die repair the bust is altered. here plus a couple of welds on the die.

silverwolf this coin is in the first 5000. its the 2020 toonie.