Definition

• Medium Relief.  A type of raised relief in sculpture midway between low and high; otherwise called half relief. The relief projects moderately from the background with extensive undercutting. Some plaques found in numismatics are cast of this relief. It is impossible to diestrike medium relief.  See relief.
     

  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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