How to Make Homemade Coin Dies for Coin Making | Custom Currency

My blacksmith husband made a homemade die to make coins with to use for medieval reenactment. To make a coin die, my husband pounds the image in with punches. Follow along as he shows step by step on how he punches the pattern into the die.
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Once the coin dies have been made, he sets one die on the bottom side, puts a blank coin in the middle, and puts the other coin die on the top side. Once this is set up, he takes a hammer and beats the impression into the coin. Voilà, a coin has been made!
For anyone curious about what exactly the 'SCA' is -- The Society for Creative Anachronism is an international, non-profit educational organization that studies and recreates the medieval and Renaissance years of 600-1600AD.
For more information and to locate your local branch, please check out www.sca.org
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