die chips - explanation please.

[RWBILLER]

way back when we called them filled dies - now we call them die chips - which i think is a good thing. i was just wondering on how they are created.

i think that they are not pieces of a die that attached themseelves to a platchet. i think they are the actual die (say obverse) that had chips come of of it - say on the devices (numbers and letters) and those chips are then - after striking - shown as bies and filled letters,etc.

am i right

thanks
roger

[DoubleYou]

You're exactly right. A die chip is where the die "chips out" in some areas, showing as the raised blobs on the struck coin.

Wendell

[jcuve]

Yes. The chip will fall out leaving an incuse void, then in turn when struck on a blank, fills with metal like any other incuse part of the design leaving a raised area.

It may incidentally appear as if a device was filled in, like a digit, or as a extension of a design element. Die cracks, especially bigger ones, and CUDs work the same way: metal going into a void creating raised areas on the struck coin.

[RWBILLER]

thanks guys
roger