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Feeding Mechanism.  The part of a coining press that brings blanks into position to be struck by the dies. (Medal presses usually have no such mechanism – they are mostly hand fed.)                                                                                                       

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