Definition

• Embedment.  (1) A piece of metal or other material impressed in the surface of a struck piece either by intent – as for a relic medal – or during the striking process as when a foreign object lodges on the planchet (as a piece of scrap) and is impressed during striking. The later should be rejected during inspection.  See impressed design, impressed error.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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