1971 Training Session. Thanks For Your Help.

Looks to me that there was some serious die polishing going on around the eye - the device looks to be polished down to the level of the field. That is what probably make the cheek look so high.

Progressive design transfer.
See that's why I come here.
How's that even possible to happen on only half the roof? I've read so much on the dies and from what I understand it should have push type doubling then shouldn't it? Not double die that smooshed look you see on deteriorating dies?
The cheek thing ok that makes sense the eye brow one let me try for a better pic.

When you look at a coin, that is a positive. A die is a negative. (What does that mean?) A die forms a coin. What is raised on a coin, is the lower part of the dies. The lowest part of the coin is not the highest point on the die:

Note the design is mirrored? All the letters are all backwards, like what you would see in a mirror.
1. Note the gutter on the outside edge of the die? That helps form the rim on the coin, which is the highest point on the coin. it is lost lowest point on the die.
2. Note the fields, the next lowest point on the die, that is the highest point on the die. This will include the bays design on the Memorial cent. That will be the outside edge of that die. So any die polishing on this area of the die, will remove metal from that edge of the devices. That alteration near the statue next to the columns is where that area was slightly polished on the die, making it rise above on the coins. (reduce it the die, you raise it on the coin)
3. Then note the bust is the deepest part of the die, it will be the highest on coin. The devices are in between. Incuse on the die, raised on the coins. The initials are called sub devices, meaning they are near the height of the fields, and the first devices to be polished off the die, when it is polished.
4. The master hub and the working hubs are positives (Like coins) And the master die and working dies are negatives. They all work together to create hub, dies and coins.





CoopHome: What does a Hub and die look like? steps in the creation of hubs, dies, coins. negatives and positives follow the chain of command.