From: none@none.com99   
      
   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   
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