Working hub and working die polishings and treatments
October 8, 2010
 
High relief Proof Hub and Die Abradings and Polishings
 
By Thomas Kalantzis

I thought to bring this to the forum, this has been on the www.ikedollardoubledie.com
 
Early on in the hubbing processes, the mint found it necessary to change the relief of some high relief working hubs so that the working die produced from the hub could with-stand the strikes and or striking pressure, at the working hub level because of striking iss...
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Where are all the Eisenhower dollar proof doubled dies?

 

By Thomas Kalantzis

For the last ten years I have been collecting Ike dollar doubled dies by die number, I have amassed a very large collection of numbered Ike doubled dies by Ncadd-Wexler, Coneca and FS as well as many un-known or unrecorded doubled dies something over 200 different doubled dies, While doing my searches as time went on I ran into instances where the doubling was not easy to recognize the die number,  die wear as ...

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