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Message:: [QUOTE="JBK, post: 2199162, member: 1101"]With all due respect, this idea sounds a little half-baked. There seems to be some confusion over what the plan is – I read it to be a press that strikes coins, not a coin elongating press. I think the elongated coin angle was mentioned as being comparable to what the struck coins would be like – custom designs relating to local topics. I press that would strike anything like a dollar or even half dollar size would be enormous, expensive (tens or hundreds of thousands of $$), and extremely powerful.  If you wanted to strike a coin half the size of a dime, for example, then a screw press or kick press could be used. There is someone in Alaska who makes his own presses for minting – he has written a book about it - it might be called "Striking Gold in Alaska" or something similar. He has more recently designed a simple drop press (using only gravity) to strike larger coins, but he has a high rate of rejects and the designs are quite simple/shallow. The press is, as I recall, 15 feet tall or so, and you need to pull a rope to lift a very heavy weight to the top in order to release it to strike the coin. He uses his outdoors. My suggestion is to stick with a simple manually operated elongating press, or use a small press for a small counterstamp on existing coins. You could have two dies made so you would get an obverse and reverse counterstamp.  Examples are the nickels stamped with “No More Lies”/”No More War”.  I think these were the subject of an earlier thread here on CT. The Shirepost Press specializes in small coins/tokens and this type of double counterstamp. You can also check out Daniel Carr’s website to get an idea of what he had to do to start minting his own material. My vote is for a custom counterstamp on both sides of a coin.[/QUOTE]

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