+Lemon Fresh Dog Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Does anyone here use a minting service? I am interested in getting some coins made and have no idea where to begin. I want to create a "Pay My Way" traditional travel bug where every cache visited gets a coin sent to it to "pay" the cache owner (if it makes it) Quote Link to comment
SilverLynx Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 It you're any good with carving, carve your coin out of wax, pay attention to any detail on the front, leave the back blank. Now take a 1/2 pint milk carton and fill it with a prepared plaster mixture (follow the directions on the bag). Smear a very light coating os vaseline on the wax coin, and place it detail side down in the plaster. do not submerge it, you want to be able to get it out. When plaster is set and hardened, remove the wax, and now you have a mold. You can use a variety of stuff to make the coins, but I prefer LEAD FREE silver solder. I cut small pieces of solder and add them to the mold, and then use a pencil torch (or my propane torch) to melt the solder. I'll add more solder to fill the mold, wait 20 minutes for it to cool, and then carefully remove the coin (in my case little trinkets). You can then use the empty backside to inscribe tracking numbers. This is a cheap way of doing it, but if you like working with your hands, its satisfying. Hope this helps, Lynx Quote Link to comment
SilverLynx Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Step by step? Allrighty, the next time I make something, I'll take pics. Might be a while, Christmas hit me in the wallet hard this year. Lynx Quote Link to comment
+Africard Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 If you would like to mint your own items in excess of 100 I suggest you try Roger Williams mint - these people were very helpful.... Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 LFD, Are you on the Calgary Area Cachers board/mailing list? We're talking right now about getting a Calgary Geocoin minted. We're going to be using pressedmetal located in BC. The board there is http://cac.sublime.ca Quote Link to comment
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