I made the coins, so I have both, plus test strikes of the olympic dies in other metals.
That's the week two shield nickel, the week one students got the with rays reverse. Nice stuff.
I can, it is all hobby stuff for me. What are you looking for?
I hand cut the designs into steel dies and use a gorton pantograph to cut the text. I have a couple of screw presses, rolling mill, and heat...
As I was teaching at the Summer Seminar, I wasn't able to make it to Dan's shop for the open house but James Wiles took a couple of pieces I...
What's the edge look like?
Just to throw the opposite end of the story about how a genuine note can be seen as counterfeit, The Milwaukee coin club had a guest speaker in...
Yup, there was an article on the photo etched pieces in an issue of Bo Tales a couple of years ago. They were still in the family of the man who...
I don't normally comment on an opinion, but when there is faulty information I sometimes will. Many early hobo nickels show signs of professional...
Each individual puzzle piece was engraved by a different hobo nickel carver. The proceeds of the sale are going to a member of the Original Hobo...
Dan, did you receive the '64 half I sent you? It was the one overstruck with the Kennedy nickel die you made for the ANA in 2014. Joe Paonessa
Let's start with the nickel. Hand cut die, overstruck on a Jefferson[ATTACH]
The sharpness of the tool and the depth that the lines were cut would also vary from die to die, this could have something to do with when they...
Very cool piece. What looks like radial lines on the outside of curves could be what engravers call "heel drag". When turning an engraving tool...
I like to give them a little more history of coinage in general to go along with the American coinage that the merit badge is based on. I go from...
I had one in the 70's, but mine was sized for cents and nickels. I can still remember the day I tried to get a Victoria farthing into it and it...
Here is a link to the one I bought. Far less expensive than the real thing. Also, the edge isn't marked and it takes a good glass to see the...
Very nice piece. i picked this one up at a recent CNG auction. [IMG] To answer some of the questions, one mold can make multiple electrotypes...
What does it weigh? If too heavy or too light, that would eliminate it being made from a U.S. cent.
Separate names with a comma.
