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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: Struck Coin Blanks ???
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:17:12 -0700
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On 11/28/2024 12:40 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 20:57, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ouch, At those prices it would be cheaper to use real money...
> 
> Peter Fairbrother
> 

.... and at those prices almost exclusively shipped from China.


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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff

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