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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 7198140" data-attributes="member: 277">oopss second pageSome countries and people including the Celts cast their coins. I have not done any research on how the molds were made. However some planchets were cast in reusable molds. Take heavy duty crucible fill with scrap gold. Heat the crucible to pouring temperature, which is above the degree just to get the material to melt. Pour the liquid gold into a two part mold (think a fish sinker or bullet mold). Let cool. Open mold. Cut off flashing and return flashing to pot. Give planchet to striker.Coins stayed in circulation long pass the time they were due to be turned in for reissue since the holder would lose face value due to debasing of coinage.  Coins became worn either by normal wear or clipping. Clipping is not what gets your team a ten yard penalty during the Super Bowl. Clipping when it relates to coins is snipping a small amount from the coin. If you clip enough coins you can melt the scraps into bullion. Clipping can be stop in various ways. Laws stating if certain words or designs are not whole then the coin is not worth face value. Rimming is another way.  Look at United States penny, on the face is Lincoln and the words In God we trust, Liberty, and the year. On the reverse of the penny are the Lincoln Memorial and the words United States of America, one cent. King George Washington could pass a law stating if letters of wording is not whole merchants can not accept the coin. The penalty for clipping if found guilty was generally hanging.  Rimming is best shown by looking at the edge of United States quarter or dime. The ridges are the rimming. Words have also been used for rimming. Debasing is the reason Henry the VIII was nickname ‘Old Copper nose’, when on the third coinage of his money he lessen the silver content. So high relief areas like the nose wore quicker to show the copper base.You can use a moneyer in your campaign by reflecting modern times. You can’t buy a soft drink in downtown New York with Japanese Yen. So have each nation, or city state create its own coinage. To keep with the PH, we will assume all moneyers make coins the same size in PH. Now when Bucky the Wonder Paladin goes to buy flowers for Sue Succubus in the Greyhawk city; he either is not going to get lucky that night. Or be fined for passing funny money. Coin craft’s English and UK coins 1066 to Date <a href="http://www.coincraft.com" target="_blank">www.coincraft.com</a>America’s Money America’s story by Richard Doty.Coins and minting by Denis cooper note shire album version is abridge version of his original book The Art and craft of coin making: a history of minting technologyNotes on the Organization of Minting in Medieval England (taken from Challis: History of the Royal Mint, 1992)<a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/925edgar-coinregs.html" target="_blank">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/925edgar-coinregs.html</a>  Medieval Source book Edward the Elder: Coinage Regulations, C 902-925Aethelred Unraedy: the Laws of London, 978<a href="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_871209.html" target="_blank">http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_871209.html</a> rare coin for a mystery roman emperor who ruled Britain  Emperor Domitianus  coin was found in a find of 5,000 coins. So tell me how little coinage was circulating in middle ages and everyone did barterLinks maybe out of date</blockquote>

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