GLOSSARY

To coin:

To model a metal through a stamp or a die exercising pressure on the same one in a press.  Example: impression of mints, medals, etc.

* for free fluid:

The coinage for free fluid is the one that is made by open stamps without any type of restraint of the metal that it will coin. The one will flow outside of the image engraved in the stamp through the compression exercised by the press, the spare material it will be clipped afterwards. 

To burnish:

To brighten a metallic piece by means of the tool denominated burnisher.

Burnisher:

Tool in multiple lengthened ways whose rounded and very refined tip allows to brighten metals through rubbing with the same one.

Burin:

Steel's instrument, very sharp in its extreme, that the engravers use to open up and engrave the metals.

Chisel:

Lengthened steel's tool which is sharpened in form of bevel that the sculptor or engraver use to open their works by means of  hammer's bumps.

Stamp:

Cylindrical tool made of very tenacious temperated steel, in which in one of its parallel faces an image has been engraved, the one that will allow then to coin medals, mints, and so forth.

To enchase:

To fit a thing in another, like a precious stone in the metal. 

Synonym: to link.

To stamp:

To coin a metal by means of stamp or die.

Press:

Machine that is used to compress. Its form and characteristics varies according to what is applied to coin, to stamp, etc.

According to the mechanism of working, they are classified in hydraulics and mechanicals.

To soften:

Thermal treatment made on metals with the purpose of eliminate tensions and therefore their hardness.

To temper:

Thermal treatment that is generally made to the steel with the purpose of granting him hardness and tenacity.

This procedure is composed in a first instance of an elevation of the temperature of the piece in an appropriate oven until the 800ºC approx. and then the abrupt cooling of the same one by immersion in a fluid (air, oil, water, etc.).

Die:

Mould used in the coinage of mints, medals, etc.

Similar instrument to stamp metallic pieces.

Machine of sharp borders to cut, by pressure, metals, etc.

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