When they say Hammered coin

What exactly happens to hammer a coin. Is there any illustrations or a reinaction how this was done

 

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Here's a good link. Hammered coinage - Wikipedia

 

“Hammered” can also be a numismatic slang term for a coin that is exceptionally well struck. I imagine that @derkerlegand answered the question you were asking.

 

Thanks, a picture is worth a thousand words. Is this the way they minted those crude Spanish COB coins ?

 

Neat. Gonna save that photo.

 

Here is someone doing just that

 

Great thread Ms. Cheech. I learned something today.

 

Hey Cheech... Simply means struck by hand instead of a machine.

 

In modern terms....auction catalogs, selling advertisement, Collector/Dealer parlance at Shows and general converstaion... concerning the condition of a coin, using words/phrases similar to " ...That coin is Hammered!..." etc., is conveying the superiority of the Strike.

It is overused, to me.

 

There have been instances in the British series where both hammered and milled (screw press) coins were issued. Here are two sixpence from Elizabeth I.

Hammered Sixpence



Milled Sixpence



The milled coins were better, but Frenchman, Eloye Mastrelle, who brought the technology to England, was hampered by technical problems. His tools often broke down and a round of plague in London didn't help.

Ultimately he lost his contract to make British coins. He turned to counterfeiting, was caught, convicted and hanged.

 

Yes.

 

Love the hat. Do you still have it

 

Love the fine example. Great depiction of how coins were made!
Question though?? What's with the Crocodile Dundee hat?

 

Thanks everyone

 

Surprisingly the quality of that hammered coin is not too bad

 

The quality of hammered coins can be all over the place. It's the same with machine made coins. If the dies are well made, the person doing the hammering is careful and you have a good quality planchet, the coin can be nice.

Here is an Edward VI shilling. Edward was Henry VIII's much anticipated but very sickly son who died when he was 16.



If the dies are worn out or not well made, the coin will not be so nice. The coins, all pennies, that were made under the Norman kings after William the Conqueror, were mostly very poorly made.

The coins that were issued by Stephen, who was William the Conqueror's nephew, were notoriously bad. This is actually well above average for a Stephen penny.



The Greek and Roman coins were hammer struck. Some of them were works of art.



Caesar Augustus



Vitaious

 

Here is a crudely hammered silver penney of Aethelred II (978-1016). The four marks on the reverse are called "peckmarks" and were made to test the silver.

The even cruder coin is a little sceatta, a common little silver coin. Believe it or not, that "porcupine" on the obverse is supposed to be a king's portrait. That's how debased the artwork on some of these can get.