Re: Struck Coin Blanks ???

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:57:58 -0700, Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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.

Many country fair coins were made of soft aluminum.

Maybe the brass sold for stamped dataplates or tags?

.<https://identificationtags.com/product/brass-blank-round-tags-with-no-holes/>

Probably the alloy used for copper pennys can be got.

Hobby stores may have coin-making supplies.

Early Chinese coins were lost-wax cast from bronze.

Joe