Talk:Coining (mint)

HIstory of the reed
When I went to school in about 1964 I was taught that the purpose of the reed was to discourage the removal of material from the edges of the coins to make illegal homemade coins. Obviously this would have been back in the days when coins were made of precious metal. If this can be somehow confirmes woudl this be a worthy snippet of information to include? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Old wombat (talk • contribs) 08:40, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

But HOW do you mint coins?
All well and good, but what about HOW coins are made? What is "striking" a coin? Why assume that a person knows what that means? When did "medieval" change to "modern"? Which technique were they using in, say, 1800? Surely it wasn't exactly like striking coins in 1990. Do modern presses use hydraulics, or do they use big automatic hammers? What is "punching" the inside of a die, as opposed to engraving it? Half of this article is too lacking in basic detail, the other half is esoteric info that is only of interest to people considering taking up coin collecting; I now know that the mint a coin came from can be told by the way the two sides don't line up correctly, but I still don't know how many coins a single die can produce in 24 hours. What about people who are interested in learning about HOW coins are made?.45Colt 21:52, 26 December 2015 (UTC) .45Colt 21:52, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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Modern die production is now outdated
I'm no expert on this or writing articles but for someone interested, this might be best merged with the medieval technique and called "history of die production". Dies are now made with CNC machines from CAD drawings much as is described the Wikipedia article on reducing machines.

2407:7000:9013:9E71:8C5E:D982:A471:6F8E (talk) 09:33, 12 January 2019 (UTC)