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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2707232, member: 39&quot;]On Sunday, [USER=15062]@davidh[/USER] posted several video links about coin <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-coins-were-made.294389/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-coins-were-made.294389/">production</a>, including this one about Melle (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) where the old - ancient and medieval - silver mines are now a museum. They also mint &quot;the old fashioned way&quot; there, to find out how it was done in former times. A little bit like the medieval Guédelon castle currently being built, except this is about coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]uGsc2TeeAkg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some info in English about coins from Melle:</p><p><a href="http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/melle.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/melle.htm" rel="nofollow">http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/melle.htm</a></p><p>(The link to the Mines and Minting Museum is outdated, see here <a href="http://www.mines-argent.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mines-argent.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mines-argent.com/</a> instead.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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