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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2338698, member: 74300&quot;]In China, and cultures heavily influenced by its currency system (Japan, Vietnam, etc), most currency types are of extreme low values. They even had laws to prevent people from hoarding coins, because it&#039;s so easy to do that and it would affect circulation. Wealth in those cultures (before re-instroduction of high value coinage in the past 700 years or so) were represented by other means, not coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>When all coins were copper and of penny value, even if the production method was just slightly less costly, or required few less labor, it would had been chosen since there&#039;s virtually no worry of counterfeits. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing is, labor cost in coin production, even those copper-iron alloy ones, is nothing compared to value of the metal. Again, even copper worth far more than labor in those days. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other topic, casting flans is different from casting coins....</p><p>More importantly though, some of you seemed to have misunderstood casting to be a 1 step process, it is not. You don&#039;t just make molds from masters (seeds), there are production masters, because mold-making deteriorates masters. So again, completely wrong guys, the &quot;seed&quot; in casting gets worn too, and depend on the process, might wear faster than punching does to a die. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are different types of casting, even in ancient worlds. Sand mold, clay mold, wax mold, then you have loss wax which is a completely different animal. </p><p>Ever seen inca gold figures? You can&#039;t make that stuff beating metal, and they didn&#039;t have the technology to produce harder alloy than gold so they could beat metal (or die punch) anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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