Renaissance Hammered Medallion

dadams

I'm figuring you guys here that like hammered coinage might appreciate this.



I took my wife and daughter to the Texas Renaissance Festival today and had a pretty good time. The highlight for me was hammering out this copper medallion:







The good folks from the Quick Silver Mint have a nice "Drop Hammer" coining press,

but I chose instead the ultra low tech method and swung a 5 lb hammer myself at this set up:







Thought I got a pretty good strike!



-d

Swampboy

Ya know this makes you a moneyer.



Nice strike!

lordmarcovan

Neat. But they should do away with the collar so you get that true "not quite round" hammered coin appearance.



Edit- if there was a collar of some kind, that is?