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memedumpster - 2016-02-19

Neat!


jfcaron_ca - 2016-02-19

When I saw the title I was thinking: "Oh cool this will be interesting!" But it turns out they made coins exactly the way you'd assume they made them...

One person in the YT comments claims that this is all wrong, that they actually cut coins out of flat pounded sheets, and trimmed the edges to calibrate weights.


glasseye - 2016-02-19

So, uh, I make struck tokens in the medieval style, so this is sort of a MASSIVE NECKBEARD video for me.

Punched vs cast blanks is a huge topic of debate. There ARE some sheets which have had coins cut or punched from them from the Eastern Roman empire, and we know for a fact that this is how coins were made in the middle ages in Europe from TONS of evidence.

Open casting blanks like this is hugely wasteful.

Also those dies are totally wrong. Like, brain-meltingly wrong. There's no evidence of a die with an integrated holder like that, though there is some evidence for the Romans using tongs to hold dies while striking, PROBABLY for hot-struck coins. I've done hot striking once, and I can say that without tongs it really sucks. My experiments lead me to believe pretty firmly that the high relief Roman coinage in metals like bronze and silver (not entirely sure about gold) were hot struck.


Oscar Wildcat - 2016-02-19

I get the impression they had some problems getting the metal hot enough to pour. It looks kind of chunky. As you say the mold was woefully inadequate. You could do better with a ladle and an iron cold plate, even.

If the Romans used dies, how did they make them? I think we all have some crude idea at least of how they are used. If there is a secret to the technology it would have been that.


glasseye - 2016-02-21

Roman dies are almost entirely engraved, just like ancient Greek ones. We know they used dies, since we have visual evidence from carvings, and there are extant dies! Here's a 6th century Eastern Roman Empire die, made for striking bronze Follis's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/antiquitiesproject/4812589050


That guy - 2016-02-19

how did they make hot dogs?


baleen - 2016-02-19

They'd get a bunch of Cynics angry!
Thank you plebes, I will be at Caesar's Palace every night till the ides of march.


cognitivedissonance - 2016-02-19

Actually, you may be interested to know that one of the key elements of the Roman festival of Lupercalia, which was celebrated on February 14th and subsumed by Valentine's Day, was eating a kind of penis shaped forcemeat sausage sold by street vendors.


That guy - 2016-02-19

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