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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7731472, member: 19463&quot;]Those are not likely to happen.&nbsp; My two sided pair is a plaster cast of a Alexandrian tetradrachm in the British Museum that was given to me by the late Roger Bickford Smith.&nbsp; We once traded casts of our collections but I have lost the ability to make casts now since I can not find a clay suitable for the impressions.&nbsp; I have bought three different brands but none do a good, sharp impression like the Plasticine I had 25 years ago.&nbsp; There was a time 100+ years ago when most coin photos were made by shooting plaster or sulfur casts rather than the coins themselves. This had a great advantage since coins with unevenly colored surfaces photographed better and they could be glued up on a board and shot at exactly 1:1 ratio (actual size) on a large format cutfilm camera. Compared to shiny or mottled metal, shooting plaster is a snap.&nbsp; Just last week I found the long lost (in my attic) box with my collection of old plaster casts and even a few made from indestructible epoxy resin that are really fun to make. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324470[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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