studio_baker

studio_baker t1_isyqcqu wrote

Coin dies aren't cast. And this probably wasn't the die anyway but what they call a punch. It's kind of the master(it looks like a coin, as in it is a positive of the coin design) that is then used to make the dies(which is a negative of the coin image) whick strike the blank to make the coin. Punches last a really long time in minting(decades), but the dies are used up fairly quickly, as in you need many for one production run.

Canadian coins nowadays are actually nearly all steel and are plated in specific ways to get the look and electronic signature correct.

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