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1363 in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1914) III. 112 (MED) We..have Ordeyned..Germyn lynche..Graver of the pounsouns of the said moneis and coignes.

1421 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 57 Twelfe pecys of syluyr, merkit with the pounsoun of Paryse.

1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 358 Ane hammyr, turcas, and othir punschioun irnis.

1562–3 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 227 The tursell..togidder with twa punscheownis, the ane berand the saidis letteris..and the uther berand the saidis crescentis and thirsell.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course ii. f. 21 To make Characters for imprinting, it is requisite first to haue ponchions of steel, softned by the fire, on the which they graue with counter-ponchions hardned.

1604 in Devon Iss. Exchequer Jas. I 352 For making and graving certain puncheons for the shaping of his Majesty's picture upon the said pieces of largess.

1670 in Hart Cent. Print. Oxf. (1900) 163 I can furnish y^e Latin Matrices, but the Greek Punctions are not found together.

1718 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (ed. 25) i. iii. xi. 287 [Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House.] An Office for the Letter-founder, furnished with Furnaces, Punchions, Matrices, Moulds [etc.].

1780 Newgate Cal. V. 346 The puncheon makes the dye, and the counter-puncheon is the dye when it is made.

1818 Gentleman's Mag. 88 ii. 330 The matrix and puncheon had not made his heart callous.

1864 Sci. Amer. 8 Oct. 229/1 One by one the blocks are placed so as to receive the impact of the puncheon.

1944 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 2 167/1 A stamp or puncheon..was made of clay and fired.

1965 Hesperia 34 215 The life of a reverse die, that is, the puncheon..is a good deal shorter than the maximum life of an obverse, or anvil die.

1994 Coin News May 32 With this coin there is a conflict of opinion amongst numismatists: some say that an R was used in place of a B on the puncheon; others say that the R is merely a broken B!