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Step Border.  A multiple-element border on a medallic item in which successive elements (from the outside inward) are lower than the previous element. The larger the medal the more elements of the border are necessary – such a multiple step border aids human fingers in picking up and holding the item. See border, molded border.

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