+plumbrokeacres Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hi fellow coiners, I have two coins about ready to go for samples I will be selling off a bunch of my spare coins shortly to help fund the coins. but, I have a question to send out to the collectors I have over 400 coins in my collection and have been trying to find some zinc alloy coins in it but can't tell if I have any so far other than the suncatchers. I have couple questions: 1. Do you know of any Zinc alloy coins out there? What are they and how do they feel compared to the Bronze coins of similar size? 2. if you had a choice of buying a Zinc alloy coin for $10 compared to a Bronze stamped coin priced at $12 which would you prefer? Quote Link to comment
+ECplus3 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 The zinc alloy coins are definitely lighter, but are just as durable. I don't think you should bother with different pricing for the two types. The zinc alloy isn't cheaper... it is generally used when there is a complicated or delicate design that is easier to do with the die cast method rather than the die stamped method. But if you want to draw up a list, my personal coin is die cast zinc alloy. Quote Link to comment
+plumbrokeacres Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 The zinc alloy coins are definitely lighter, but are just as durable. I don't think you should bother with different pricing for the two types. The zinc alloy isn't cheaper... it is generally used when there is a complicated or delicate design that is easier to do with the die cast method rather than the die stamped method. But if you want to draw up a list, my personal coin is die cast zinc alloy. The mint I dealing with has the Zinc $2 cheaper per coin Quote Link to comment
+anne.and.eli Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 The GCF 2010 wolf coin was zinc. But it was 3.5mm thick to give it more heft so it felt more like a bronze coin. Quote Link to comment
avroair Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 if you had a choice of buying a Zinc alloy coin for $10 compared to a Bronze stamped coin priced at $12 which would you prefer? I am not a fan of zinc, I think it makes the coins lighter and in a sense cheaper. There are a few cases where zinc is needed like sun catcher coins but on the whole I don't like em. In answer to your question, I prefer bronze at $10 Quote Link to comment
+plumbrokeacres Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 Well I think I`m going to try the zinc out on my group coin and Go bronze with the Stormcloud coin I`m working on. I`ve looked at my coins and they all seem to be Bronze I`m trying to keep the costs down on the group coin so it`ll be zinc Quote Link to comment
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