Definição

• Artist who engraved a design in intaglio directly onto a die blank, in a technique close kin to engraving sealstone gems. Later synonyms include die engraver, diesinker. The engraver in any official mint eventually had to become enough of a sculptor to create device punches. Since the late 19th century, the engraver's tasks in the Philadelphia Mint have included making relief models suitable for conversion into galvanos which the portrait lathe would mechanically copy into matrixes or master dies, these in turn eventually used to raise hubs from which working dies would be sunk. Here the idea is to multiply identical coins in unprecedented quantity.

Fonte

• Breen Encyclopedia

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