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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2108409, member: 112&quot;]Sorry but that is incorrect. Were some ancient coins cast as you describe ? Yes, but very few. Most were made by mint workers hammering out a sheet of gold, silver, or copper, by hand until it was the desired thickness. Planchets were then cut, by hand, out of that sheet. The planchets were then placed on an anvil die, a hammer die was then placed on top of it, and the hammer die struck with a hammer, by hand. That is how the coins were made. And yes, they have luster. This same method was used until 1643 when the French invented milled coinage. All of this is well known and very well documented. Contemporary texts describing the process still exist today as do the tools and implements used. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry, but what you are describing, is simply not true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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