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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 2768492, member: 84179&quot;]With the exception of a few pieces in the teens that were used by the Meissen factory (from something a read years ago and can&#039;t vouch for its accuracy), all of these were made for collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a 6 volume set of books by Scheuch listing all of the medals and &quot;coins&quot;.&nbsp; I have it buried in a box somewhere, but can&#039;t seem to find it.&nbsp;&nbsp; My personal preference is to refer to any porcelain piece with a denomination as a &quot;coin&quot;, while the remainder are medals.&nbsp; Not sure if this the standard nomenclature, but it works for me</p><p><br /></p><p>The minting process is by dry pressing a clay/porcelain powder, similar to making simple ceramic parts used in industry.&nbsp; A few special examples are made by slip casting (gipsform).&nbsp; On some medal sets like the 1922 Gaildorf and 1923 Revensberg have a white clay and red clay piece pressed from the same die.&nbsp; The red pieces are smaller due to differences in shrinkage when it is fired.&nbsp; (generally, red has more iron and other glass formers that cause the piece to shrink more). </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve noticed that pieces not produced in Meissen, such as Hohr, Bitterfeld, Lengsfeld, and some Waldenburg, have a lot more pressing and firing flaws than the Meissen pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the medal&nbsp; and Saxony &quot;coin&quot; sets can still be found in the original boxes at reasonable prices[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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