Re: Struck Coin Blanks ???

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).
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I started writing with two questions in mind.
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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.

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Ouch, At those prices it would be cheaper to use real money...
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Peter Fairbrother
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 ... 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