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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
The matrix is placed in a curved casting box and molten type metal (of a different composition from that used in making the slugs) is poured in, giving a relatively thin plate curved so as to extend half way round a cylinder, and with the type-characters on its outer surface.