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Blanking Die.  The tooling which cuts out flat pieces of stock from rolled strip material to form blanks. A blanking die (more appropriately, blanking die set) includes the punch, a plate, a stripper, and occasionally a holder. There is no die with a design in a blanking die set, it is for cutting out a specific shape only. It is sometimes called a blank-cutter, and in England it is called cutting-out die.  See blanking.

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