More coin stuff...
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:53 pm
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I recently finished a <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/2324920766/in/photostream/">Henry III</A> style <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/2305454853/">die</A>. This means I now have dies for both sides of a Henry III long-cross style penny! Both sides have been slightly modified to comply with US law.
The picture above is of a small pile of sterling silver strikes, at period thickness (0.5mm,) measured from extant pieces in my collection. I hand-cut the blanks with a pair of shears, just like they did. Sterling silver is significantly harder than pewter or fine silver, even when fully annealed, so I found it fairly hard to get a full strike by myself. I'm confident that with a second person holding the dies I'd be able to get complete strikes with a fairly high success rate. Probably not my 90% success rate in pewter, but at least 50%.
-Donasian.
I recently finished a <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/2324920766/in/photostream/">Henry III</A> style <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/2305454853/">die</A>. This means I now have dies for both sides of a Henry III long-cross style penny! Both sides have been slightly modified to comply with US law.
The picture above is of a small pile of sterling silver strikes, at period thickness (0.5mm,) measured from extant pieces in my collection. I hand-cut the blanks with a pair of shears, just like they did. Sterling silver is significantly harder than pewter or fine silver, even when fully annealed, so I found it fairly hard to get a full strike by myself. I'm confident that with a second person holding the dies I'd be able to get complete strikes with a fairly high success rate. Probably not my 90% success rate in pewter, but at least 50%.
-Donasian.