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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 7356501, member: 69760&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t look like they just created their &quot;own&quot; 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 &quot;IN GOD WE TRUST&quot; missing on the left side. So the mold(s) must&#039;ve been tweaked in the process across however many steps. And, I&#039;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&#039;s a lot of manual finishing work with a cast bar...). I know I&#039;m skipping over a lot of the important, specific details on how it&#039;s done, but is that roughly the idea of how it was made?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, it&#039;s a really good transfer of detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/hJ63dt7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ksw9Tcv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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