Shire Post Mint has recently licensed with Saul Zaentz co to make the in-world fantasy coinage from The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™...
There's a whole new series of Game of Thrones coins coming out... a Kickstarter is currently up to fund production. There will be some exclusives...
I liked the article a great deal! There was just one line that I have to differ with: where you said: "but no amount of meddling can replace the...
So... you know about Shire Post Mint... right? Shire Post licensed with George R.R. Martin 12 years ago, to make coinage from A Song of Ice and...
I put an example up on ebay of the counterstamped nickel that I mentioned in a thread on the nickelhead forum at realcent:...
I hadn't tried anything like that yet. The set-ups that Denis Cooper shows the US mint using in THE ART AND CRAFT OF COINMAKING are quite a bit...
Coining Dies Hi Capped... Noticed this thread.... tools and techniques! Well, to start with, here's a webpage that is a brief tour of my...
Here's a set of coining dies I just finished making, set up for hand-striking with minimal tools (you need a vise and a hammer) Auction includes...
Partly clogged... maybe, that's an awfully evenly filled clog though. More likely it is just a lightly punched mintmark. Speaking of pennies...
I have started overstriking US memorial copper cents (mechanically sorted from circulation, eye verified) with a new design redefining them as per...
Yes, have a pile of 30" long 3/4" W-1 tool steel bars here... probably more than I'll ever use. (I thought it was W-2, but on looking again, it...
I usually order die steel from ONLINE METALS. It's easy and they get it out pretty quick. You will want to get the W-1 tool steel drill rod in the...
Agreed. Please see my reply in the other thread on the same subject.
I agree with Captain Henway 100%. The coins and dies that you are showing are without question modern fantasies. As a metal craftsman and...
Hi Captain! I graduated from da tech in '76. The reverse of the coin shows the #2 shaft house at Quincy Mine, now a national historic site....
Dies of that type are generally made by using small chisels and punches to make marks in the steel, rather than etching. Etching will give you a...
You'll want to use high-carbon steel and heat-treat it. The cheapest is W-1, a water-hardening steel. Next bet is O-1, oil hardening. O-1 is more...
Wth a manual screw press working on my own I have gotten up to 6 coins per minute. If you have a helper flinging the flywheel you should be able...
edited Also... on eBay right now is a rather nice looking Hopkins screw press CHEAP!!! They are starting the bid at $150 and the last time I...
Excellent detective work! Indeed, I have not handled any of those, but I have some photographs. Apparently that was a "fantasy" that was used in...
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