everal thousand years ago the minting techniques for creating coins was entirely different than it is today. The primitive forms of creating these ancient coins insures that no two coins are exactly alike. After heating and melting the metal, the coiner would then hammer the metal into a small flat planchet of metal. It was then heated again to almost red hot so that it could receive an impression from the bronze dies which would create the design on the coin. A heavy mallet was used by the coiner to strike the images from the dies onto the metal disc. The result of these efforts were coins that survived thousands of years and are now considered to be international treasures.

 

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