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Hand Inscribed, Hand Inscribing

Hand Inscribed, Hand Inscribing.  Placing lettering on an existing medallic object, as to customize or personalize it, by flat engraving performed by an engraver. This produces incised lettering, and is in contrast with such engraving by machine.  See flat engraving.

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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