Sunken Relief 上市 Deposited
- Sunken Relief. Negative relief; the design projects below the background. Sunken relief is also called incised (cut into) or intaglio (stamped into) a surface. It appears as a concave area to the viewer. 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