From: peter@tsto.co.uk   
      
   On 28/11/2024 19:17, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Hmm, be a hecka lot more once Trump's in.   
      
   But I was thinking of using coins for blanks. Here in the UK post 1946   
   75/25 cupronickel florins are about 20p each in 1,000 lots - pre 1920   
   92% (sterling) silver ones can be had for about £11, 1920 to 50% silver   
   ones are about £5.   
      
   Florins are old pre-decimal currency, once worth 2/- (2 shillings) or   
   10p. 28mm diameter, weigh 11.3 grams. There are also the slightly larger   
   half-crowns.   
      
   You would have to anneal the cupronickel ones.   
      
   I don't know whether the US has anything similar. Or Canada, or Mexico...   
      
   Peter Fairbrother   
      
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