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Diecutter

Diecutter.  A person who cuts a die; also the mechanism, as on a pantograph, which cuts the die, the term includes the cutting point and its rotating mechanism. There are many names of the person who mechanically cuts or operates a diecutting machine. He is not a die engraver, diesinker or diemaker (these terms imply hand engraving, hubbing or a tool and diemaker respectively). But in addition to being called a diecutter, he is also a transfer die engraver, pantograph operator or reducing machine operator.

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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