Terry1643

Hi Tom, I'm one of Daves appretices, I'm meeting up again with him in the new year to collect a 4p Charles die, I'll ask him then. I'm having my shear redone for the new year as they were to short somthing similar to these, around 30": My next display piece was the clamps, I'll catch up on those with Dave, thanks for all your help, Terry.

Hi Tom, thanks for you great description and making the time to reply back to me, do you know how the clamp mechanism worked? the picture is very vague, I'm looking into getting a reproduction made up for a dispaly piece. The main area of reserch is based on the temporary mints during the ECW and Seige pieces, many coins were products of provincial mints operating under wartime conditions even by contemporary standards, many of the coins produced under such conditions, were very irregular in appearance. Thanks for you help, Terry

Hi, I’m currently doing some research on 16th century minting could anyone help me? It’s not directly coin related but by a tool used in the minting process. On one of the pains featuring the coat of arms of Werner Zentgraf, a 16th century mint showing mint master Schaffhausen, one of the pains shows a clamp being used to smoothen of the hammered planchets (Large picture shown below) Has anyone ever come across one of these tools or seen a picture on the internet? if you have I would love to hear from you.