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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 363649, member: 6370"]Okay, sorry about that. I feel I should say, just in case, that I am simply interested in the process and have always wanted to try to produce a coin. Mainly I like the artistic aspects. I have no intention of ever trying to make a coin to fool someone or cheat them....I have no plan on selling what I make but simply passing out what I manage to produce for fun. Me and my wife had an idea to make a series of coins with images of philosophers in Byzantine style, or maybe in the style of a Venetian Grosso... starting with Diogenes of Sinope. That might be interesting to try if I can get the method down and possibly refine it. Byzantine coins also have a simpler style (many of them) that I might be able to emulate easier. For now I am just going to do a soldier obverse and quadruped reverse to start with. I did a little sand casting in pewter (lead free) so I was planning to try to use that in the first run. I also have junk silver but silver melt temperatures are so high while pewter softens around 350° and melts a little higher making it easier for me since I dont have to achieve a temperature high than say...500°. I would like to make a first run in pewter to see how the design looks before going to silver. Thanks again for the help.[/QUOTE]