Any experience with coins in a vice?

Who says such things? If talking strictly about coins, and aside from a few select quick flip exceptions, people who harp on the "coins as investments" idea are almost always full of it. As for how much one can make, it certainly gets asked a lot, but other than, perhaps, a select few, it doesn't seem to be that pressing of an issue.

If you don't wish to stay, I wish you luck where ever you decide to go, but if you stick around, don't let people get under your skin... the less you do, the better off you'll be.

 

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When everyone that post starts agreeing on everything, I'm going to leave.
If someone can't come here and have fun they should leave.
Saying that there is no passion for the hobby here is just wrong.
You can't put everyone in the same boat. Everyone here is different and will have different opinions. Don't fight it, just learn from it.

 

To be honest I really don't think your idea will work. Not all the surfaces on a coin are raised above the edge to you'll be missing a fair amount of details. Plus you may just end up leaving an impression of the vice on the coins. I'd give it a few test runs but I don't think it will work well.

 

Long ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, (and tasted just like chicken, which is why they are extinct) I tried pressure welding a couple Lincoln cents together in my dads vise. They were both copper, as it was well before anyone even thought about zinc.
I used a hammer, to get it as tight as possible. All I managed to do was mangle the cents and damage my dads vise threads.
Laugh if you will, but you could buy things for 2 cents then, like penny candy. All I succeeded in doing was ruining both their collecting and spending value. Nowadays you could throw them in with your "junk" copper to sell as scrap metal.
Maybe you could buy a penny rolling machine, or use an old fashioned hand mold and hammer like the Romans?

 

I may have mentioned this elsewhere already, but a local annual medieval fair features a self-trained coin hammerer who cuts his own dies and demonstrates coin hammering to the public. It's awesome to watch and he gives out coins made of aluminum. Last year he made coins inspired by Antioch Helmet deniers (they were not exact reproductions). When I asked him how much effort it took to make his dies, he said one word: "considerable." He apparently has a metal shop and a background in metalworking, etc., etc. My guess is that if he finds homemade hammering difficult, others would find it nearly impossible. But I would love to hear stories of people who have tried, succeeded or failed.

 

Got me thinking about Disneyland pressed coins: Maybe if they had clean blank planchets, the pressed coins might be higher quality?


http://www.parkpennies.com/pressed-penny-coin-collections.htm

Not my cup of tea. But there are lots more elongated coins:

https://twitter.com/ElongatedCoins/status/629831628798300160/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
http://elongatedcoins.org/
http://tecnews.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/arts/numismatics-elongated-coins.html

 

Use one U.S. cent and one Canadian cent, Or one wheatie with a 2015 obverse. When you are being creative, go all out!

 

Ewomac, where was this medieval minter? I cut dies and hand strike coins (my avatar is one of them) and I might know him.

 

I'm sorry you feel the way you do but try and understand, there have been some of us who have collected for 50 years or more. We are not trying to throw you a sucker punch but we have seen the results over the years of self made oddities being sold as "rarities", "unique", "one of a kind" and so on to unsuspecting newbies and those that are easily drawn in by such catch phrases, only to find out after the fact that they have indeed been sucker punched. And yes, there are people here who troll just to find fault but we also manage to sort these folks out and simply ignore their bad taste in useless critisism. This forum is no different (thought the majority would like it to be better) than FB, Twitter or any other countless social networks that do exactly the same. Your heart is in the right place but once you post you should be prepared for both positive and negative results. And some of us are just having a bit of fun with others and usually follow a wry comment with a smiley. Take the positives and tuck them in your pocket and take the negatives and toss them over your shoulder. And bragging rights are sometimes well deserved, especially when someone finds that key coin and is able to afford and add it to their life long search as being a done deal. I hope you change your mind and stick around, it will be worth your while in the long run. Have a great day and "Don't Worry, Be happy". Tom