I came up with this one day while sitting at a table at my grandparent's house. Since my Grandma cooks a lot, she had the aluminum foil out on the table for like potatoes or something. I also had a few coins in my pocket, so I took one out, and it was a 2009 Formative Years Cent, one of the first that I found. Then the idea struck me. I know that people have come up with it before, but here are my directions: 1.) Take any coin of your choice and a piece of aluminum foil. 2.) Take the coin and place it under the foil, using your thumb nail to outline the rim of the coin on the foil by pushing your nail along the coin's side. 3.) Fill in the rest of the design by using your thumb nail or your index finger nail and pressing on the coin's surface above the aluminum foil, but make sure you keep the coin in place, unless you want a double die (if you want a double die, create the whole design, then move the coin over slightly and create the design again. Looks really cool, especially with a 1955 Cent.) 4.) Remove the coin from under the foil, and you have a mini work of art! Enjoy everybody! Coinmaster1. :thumb:
At age 13, Emery May Holden Norweb made a portfolio of coin rubbings prepared in 1908 that were made from the American coins in the collection of her father, Albert Holden. The rubbings are arranged chronologically with Crosby numbers for the colonial pieces and other citations for the federal issues.
Large Cent collectors have made foil impressions of their coins for many, many years. We use a Notary stamp with a rubber pad instead of the die.
You can do a better job filling it in using a pencil eraser. Just repeatedly press the eraser down on the coin. Back before the advent of digital photography in EAC the making of foil impressions was commonplace by the members. To make it easier we used to use modified Notary presses. We would replace the upper seal with a disk of stiff rubber and the bottom seal was used as an anvil. We would take a metal tray and attach a layer of stiff rubber to it. Then we would take a large cent and place it inside a folded over strip of foil. Put it on the trayand insert it into the press. Squeeze the press a couple of times to make sure you get a good impression. Carefully open the strip and let the cent slide out. Then to protect the pressing you place it inside a half dollar sized Whitman 2X2 snap together holder. Now it can be safely handled, passed around, or even mailed to someone to show off your new prize without having to worry about the foil impression being crushed.
There was an article on how to make such a press in a John Reich Journal years ago. Maybe somebody can search up a copy.
Is it a notary stamp or a seal stamp? I have seen this done with the old seal stamps, like banks or hospitals used. The old cast iron ones that left an impression into official documents. I thought notary stamps were just ink printing. What this is extremely helpful for is coins with variable toning to see details. It was amazing how much more detail I saw on a Anonymous bronze I had with multiple toning. Taking the toning away really lets you see the details better.
The notary seal also makes a impression in the paper. Notary seals can come as either a hand squeeze type seal or as you mentioned the older free standing cast iron press type. Typically in EAC we converted the cast iron ones.
We used to make copies filling the foil with Elmer's glue and letting it dry. You could paint it, but it would be just one side of the coin. as kids we felt we were making money. LOL
thats a great idea. i was bored one day and am a horrible artist, so i put the coin under a sheet of paper(just a shield cent) and ran a pencil over it. i am sure it would work with a crayon also, but i guess my girl only believes in pens and markers, since we only have 1 pencil and no crayons! she has charcoal pencils, but they were around $70 for 3 of them! not allowed to touch those... if i did, she probably wouldn't draw me anymore tattoos.
I never thought of it that way since I was envisioning an end product that would be perfectly clear like glass. But I suppose resins could be colorized before they're poured. One would have to scratch the word "COPY" into their foil mold before the resin pour
I had a buddy when we were kids that used to do that with his slot cars. He would paint them and replace the plastic car body with his aluminum foil body. When they crashed, the cars would look like they were in accidents.
