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Subject: Re: Struck Coin Blanks ???
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:12:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Maybe ask non-ferrous scrap buyers if they'll sell knockouts
(donut holes) from punched parts for a little over scrap price?

hth,

bob prohaska



> 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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