Grand father In laws coin collection

[Haynie]

My grand father in law was apparently a pretty avid collector of non rare English coins. The cool thing is some are from 1800 something. I thought it would be neat to cast a couple of these on blanks but some are pretty thick. I know you are supposed to sand them down but how do you do that without sanding your fingers down too?

 

[glen r]

Use a forstner bit to drill a hole in a piece of scrap wood, the same size as the coin to the approximate thickness of the coin then sand everything down until you have the required thickness of the coin.

 

[Haynie]

Duh. Some times the easiest things escape me.

 

[Rollingrock]

Good idea
I've been using double stick tape and spend quite a bit of time chasing
the coin around the shop

 

[maxwell_smart007]

Man do I hate the thought of destroying historical artifacts - no matter how commonplace!

(but then again, I am a History nut!)

I'll get over it!
Andrew

 

[hanau]

just make sure that the coins are not rare and valuable.

 

[Haynie]

Don't worry Andrew and John

These are historical in name alone. As a trained Archaeologist the first thing I did was have them checked out. Apparently this english king guy REALLY liked seeing his face on a coin and was a prolific printer of coinage. I had them looked at by a respected coin guy and he said they were worth like a dollar or two because there are so many in existence. I am not worried about these going into a pen. Just think it would be neat.

My GFIL did have a few rare coins and they are in a safe deposit box.