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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
Subject: Struck Coin Blanks ???
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:57:58 -0700
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Every since watching a woman dressed in pirate garb at a renaissance 
fair (or faire if you prefer) place a blank in a set of dies and drop a 
heavy weight on it to strike a souvenir coin I have had in the back of 
my mind the idea to strike my own coins.  I can certainly make the dies. 
  4140 is relatively easy to machine if you know how, and it will harden 
"hard enough" for a low production number of from a few hundred to a 
couple thousand coins.  I also keep a bit of O1 and W1 on hand for those 
cutting tools I can't hand grind from HSS or carbide.  I even have a 
propane forge in the back along with a toaster oven for tempering 
(although it gets used more for powder coating).

I started writing with two questions in mind.

Where to buy/make coin blanks at the best price?  Not the 10-20 on Ebay 
or Amazon, but a couple hundred to a couple thousand at a more 
reasonable bulk price.

I forgot the other question, so my second question is what question (or 
questions) did I forget to ask?  Maybe what alloy would best?  I suspect 
an annealed copper alloy of some kind.  Many an amusement facility used 
to have a machine that would take your penny (and a dollar) and roll 
your penny into a souvenir key tag back in the days when pennies were 
still copper.




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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff


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