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Coin making? new_CFI 11-14-2006
Posted by new_CFI on November 14, 2006, 12:17 pm
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Ive looked on google and at the library but cant seem to find any info on
striking coins, other than modern methods. I saw a guy making site tokens
at an sca event once striking blanks. Im looking for a website or a book
that might tell how to do all of this. Making the punch or die ( what ever
its called ) seems like it would be the hard part. Is it even something a
beginer could do? or am I trying to start out at to complex of a level?

Posted by Ecnerwal on November 14, 2006, 12:30 pm
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> Ive looked on google

How hard have you looked? This wasn't too difficult to dredge up via
google. Crappy looking coins, but authentically crappy looking.

http://www.archaeologystudent.com/coinarch/paper6.htm

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Posted by new_CFI on November 14, 2006, 1:21 pm
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39D21A.12300514112006@news.verizon.net:

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> http://www.archaeologystudent.com/coinarch/paper6.htm
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Thanks, dont know why I couldnt find something myself. Looks like fun, and
looks like something I could do.

Posted by on November 15, 2006, 8:32 pm
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> Ecnerwal wrote:
> > http://www.archaeologystudent.com/coinarch/paper6.htm

Cool. :)

> Thanks, dont know why I couldnt find something myself. Looks like
> fun, and looks like something I could do.

Over on rec.knives a half dozen guys could be looking for something
and the same guy would find the stuff consistanly... Bill H. Asked
him how he did it and he had no real advice but got the impression
it was all about trial and error and staying with it. Words and
phases and more words and more phrases and then phrases and then
words? ;)

Anyway, there's an AISI/SAE tool steel classification "P" and those
are the industrial "coining" steels. P for press? :/

Alvin in AZ

Posted by Martin H. Eastburn on November 14, 2006, 8:31 pm
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That looked interesting - but the gold coin my Dad has that is 'old' - looks
like it might
have been a controlled pour into a form and then struck.

So as the metal starts to cool from molten it is put into a temp form.

Otherwise the squishing look of the edge would have taken a monster press that
all but melts
it upon contact to do the same.

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn
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Ecnerwal wrote:
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>>Ive looked on google
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> How hard have you looked? This wasn't too difficult to dredge up via
> google. Crappy looking coins, but authentically crappy looking.
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> http://www.archaeologystudent.com/coinarch/paper6.htm
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