From: none@none.com99   
      
   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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