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spike

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  1. Today in change I recieved a blank penny. It was just a planchet. It has a raised rim, but no Mr. Lincoln and no Memorial. Looked like it had been circulating a few years... can't believe I was the first to grab it.
  2. >Consider this, the smallest US coins, the cent and dime, are struck at 40 tons. Silver dollar or silver round size is around 140 tons. Hmmmm.... maybe I'll have to stick with gold. Thats pretty soft, right?
  3. Yeah, that German page is very cool.... now if I could just read German...
  4. Hmm... I guess the "hammer" method would be cheapest and most accessible, though I'm not sure I'd be able to get the strike quality I want. On the other hand, 20 ton hydrolic shop presses can be had for less than $200... it ought to be possible to adapt one of those to press a coin. Looks like the real difficulty would be in creating the die... probably best just to make my own design and then send it somewhere else to be formed.
  5. I was thinking the other night about the type of coins I would like to have, and it occured to me that some of the coins I want don't yet exists. I have an idea for a specific design - or series, rather, that I think would be really cool and somewhat apealing to a niche market. So, give that the coins I want don't yet exist... I was just wondering - what would it take to mint your own coins? I'm not talking about serious mass production here... more along the lines of artisan-quality silver bullion coins of my own design and minted on a small, hand operated hydrolic press, in quantities of, say, 50 or 100 at a time. Speaking hypothetically, how would one even go about doing this? How would you make dies? What kind of press would you need? Where could you get blanks? What other problems would you have to solve? Does anybody do this now? Just thought I'd throw that question out there.... who has ideas? - Spike
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