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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2233199, member: 15588&quot;]Wow... my mandible has disconnected from my skull and scurried across the room... I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve actually ever seen an actual noble much less touched one. I have seen plenty of photos and videos. But I can&#039;t imagine owning one. That must be a fun disc of gold to take out and just gaze at until your retinas turn golden.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the rest of you with rancid luck like my own, an actual gold noble appears in this rather interesting video, apart from other rather scintillating hammered discs.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]nrT8MbG7uTg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the man performing the actual hammering, his name is Dave Greenhalgh and he supposedly makes a living off of demonstrating medieval hammering techniques. A hammering enthusiast in my area accused him (apparently in an e-mail) of &quot;cheating&quot; by using a collar. This local hammerer has recreated medieval dies without the collar seen in the video, and he claims that there is no historical evidence for their use. Greenhalgh apparently disagreed, but the details became sketchy and I&#039;m not sure where the whole debate ended up. I did have the excessive pleasure of witnessing a hammering re-enactment, along with reproductions of often seen hammering errors and variations. The local hammerer knew how to reproduce them. And he made awesome little reproductions that resembled helmet deniers from Antioch. I still have a few. A fine memory if there ever was one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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