Definition

• Stock Dies.  Dies not owned or ordered by any particular client but on hand at a medallic firm for use by anyone. Stock dies are usually of wreaths, award designs, or standard design available in a number of diameters and often employed as the reverse to mate with a custom obverse.

  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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