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Subject: Re: punchlinks
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I knew I should have stayed away. Byron, you ought to reread the
article before you try to remember it! Gaspar's point that I found
impiortant was the mass production of letter punches using common
matrices at the Tower Mint in the 17th c. I took this to show that
since letter punches were mass produced every A looked like every
other A raised from the same matrix; that this technology was in
common use in the Tower in the late 17th c; and that it was used in
Edinburgh at the same time or soon thereafter.
This meant to me that the state of the art punch and die making
technology used at the Tower Mint in the late 17th c. denied the
necessarily unique nature of any and all letter punches appearing on
coins in the late 18th c. I assume the Tower's punch making matrices
had become broadly available 100 years later.
Thus, punch links by themselves are inadequate to establish any sort
of commonalty among emissions. Other evidence must be adduced to do
so.
That's all. There's nothing anachronistic in the above and I believe
my memory of this part of Gaspar's paper is close. - 2002-05-24
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