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Foul Bite

Foul Bite.  An anomaly of acid etching; cut into metal where it is not wanted; also called false bite.  See acid etching. By extension, the same term is used in engraving dies handcut for a slip of the burin, cutting into the surface of a die where it was unintended.

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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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