Definition

• Nest.  A jig or receptacle to position a medallic item during piercing or trimming operations. It is prepared by a tool and diemaker while he makes the piercing or trimming tooling. See piercing, trimming.
      

  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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