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Production of Roman coinage
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Avete fraterii:

I am interested in knowing the methods used to strike Roman coinage, specifically, were the planchets hot-struck or cold-struck?
How were the planchets themselves made? I have a number of reproduction sestertii made for me by Holger Ratsdorf, and they are around 1/4" thick. Were the planchets punched from a plate, or cut from the end of a bar? The thickness of silver denarii, gold aurei and bronze Asses doesn't seem to be a problem if they are punched from a plate

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