The design of this looks pretty neat.... the Sam Sloat 1 oz silver Wartime Nickel from 1973, with the obverse and reverse nickel diameters exactly that of a Jefferson nickel. It doesn't look like they just created their "own" design by hand drawing/carving the Jefferson nickel design onto a die. It looks as if they created a mold directly from an actual 1945-S nickel. When I first saw it I thought they somehow took a real Jefferson nickel and set it in the bar somehow. But the 1945 date is obviously higher up on the right side of the obverse with the "IN GOD WE TRUST" missing on the left side. So the mold(s) must've been tweaked in the process across however many steps. And, I'm guessing that the final design used a die on a blank bar, given the frosty surface of the nickel design and the mirrored fields (or else there's a lot of manual finishing work with a cast bar...). I know I'm skipping over a lot of the important, specific details on how it's done, but is that roughly the idea of how it was made? In any case, it's a really good transfer of detail. Thanks in advance!
