Coin Making Guide: From Sketch to Strike

This is a comprehensive guide to designing and manufacturing coins, medals and bars. It details the processes and workflows used to create designs, come up with ideas, explore potential uses and establish a look and feel to your creation. Sharing the techniques used by the author to create successful products, demonstrating that it is possible to create great coins with any level of artistic ability. The book covers the manufacturing process and the type of materials you might choose, it takes the reader through the collaboration process that is often undertaken with a manufacturer and goes into what to expect depending on where in the world you are based or where you choose to source you product. Contained within are chapters which touch upon the many different applications that are at a coin creator's disposal when undertaking a project. The book gives the reader everything they need to get started on their own products or hobby projects, finally giving an example project.