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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 662843, member: 6370&quot;]I have been experimenting with techniques that would enable me to make a good coin die. I posted a while ago with a few of my first attempts, rough but I think I might have found some solutions and am ready to try again. My first attempt was a Celtic type coin, this time it will be Crusader. The design will be like the picture below. I had to develop a &#039;crusader&#039; font to make this coin, I am emulating a coin type of Bohemond III with the stylized knight (my favorite crusader coin type) although I studied at least 40 different crusader coins for lettering styles. I want it to be readable unlike most crusader coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. At the moment the revers says &#039;Such is life&#039;...I might change it before I mint.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/coins/crusader.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, my daughters birthday is coming very soon, I wanted to have this process perfected by then so I could mint her a coin celebrating her birth...I didnt make it so instead I am having silver coins minted professionally which will look like this:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/coins/cassiacoin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>the process will be using photoresist (nstead of plain acid resist which I was using before and did not give clean results) I am hoping that this will give me the ability to transfer fine detail exactly onto a steel surface. If it works, then I will be able to create coins with perfect clean text...Previously I was using just regular acid resist and trying to do the small text by hand but that process was highly flawed and wasnt producing the results I wanted.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I will post again once I am able to get my hands on new steel rods for the dies and complete the process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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