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Cast Coins of Cherson. Late 8th Century.
Theophilus (829-842).
From this time on, almost all coins are cast, not struck.
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lost wax cast fake
Lost wax castings can be much more dangerous to collectors, but require correspondingly more sophisticated equipment to make.

Cast Imitation Halfpence
Breen and Mossman believe the Rehoboth mixed metal coppers refer to halfpence cast in sand molds.

Cast Bronze As
The cast bronze coinage replaced the Aes Signatum ingots (1.6 kg) in 289 bc. The original standard As of 320 to 330 g began to decline in weight due to devaluations after 269 b.c.

cast coin - a coin that was made by pouring melted metal into a mold or cast. Not made by striking a die against a blank like most coins. Casting was a common process used to try to counterfeit coins.

Cast copies: These are made by making a mold from an authentic coin, and then pouring metal into the mold, one half at a time.
Electrotype copies: These are made by electrolysis and filling.

Cast blanks - Coin blanks that are molded, rather than cut from strips of metal.
Cast Coins - Coins which are made not in the usual manner of striking with dies, but by pouring molten metal into a mold.

Cast coin A coin made by pouring molten metal into molds.
Colony word colonus is a Latin word for "cultivator" or "farmer." Colonia literally means the "collective of farmers.

cast counterfeit: a fake coin made by pouring melted metal into a mold. These will usually fail the ring test.

cast counterfeit A replication of a genuine coin usually created by making molds of the obverse and reverse, then casting base metal in the molds. A seam is usually visible on the edge unless it has been ground away.

Cast Counterfeit - A counterfeit coin that is made in a cast vs a counterfeit that was struck from dies.

Cast
Made by pouring molten metal directly into a mold. It is an older method used in counterfeiting coins.

Cast Coins - Coins which are made not in the usual manner of striking with dies, but by pouring molten metal into a mold.

cast counterfeit
A replication of a coin created by making molds of the obverse and reverse, then casting base metal in those molds.
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cast counterfeit
Duplicating a coin using molds of both sides of a genuine coin and then making a cast using a base metal.
CCD ...

CAST FAKES
A counterfeit coin produced by a casting process. Most cast coins have defects which are discernible upon close inspection.
CATALOGUE ...

CAST_OR
Castor standing facing, head left, nude but for chlamys over left shoulder, scepter in left hand, reins of horse in right, horse standing left in background, right front leg raised
Ceres ...

Cast coins
coins that are made by pouring molten metal into a mold.
Cherry picker ...

Cast:
Ian Holm - Mitchell Stephens (lawyer) Sarah Polley - Nichole Burnell (victim) Tom McCamus - Sam Burnell (father) Bruce Greenwood - Billy Ansel (parent) Gabrielle Rose - Dolores Driscoll (bus driver) Arsinée Khanjian - Wanda Otto (parent) ...

Cast forgeries often have slippery or waxy surfaces, which can be detected with the coin in hand. Struck coins have surfaces that are more resistant to moving your finger gently over their surface.

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth." Ecclesiastes 11:1-2, King Solomon, ca 1000 BC ...

The cast on the far right above is the cast made from the mold taken directly from the clay. the other cast has been scraped, scoured and sanded to give it a nice clean look. It still needs some work, however.

Most cast coins were cast in molds, but in the latter half of the 19th and the early 20th century, some provinces started to move to milled coinage. This cash coin of Kwangtung Province, 1890-1908, is one such milled coin.

[edit] Cast bronze coinage
Anonymous (Rome). Circa 240-225 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (259.53 g). Bearded head of Janus, I horizontally below; on a raised disk Prow of galley right; I above; all on a raised disk.

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cast bronze
A few ancients were cast rather than struck from dies and often show remnants of the sprue where metal entered the die. These can also appear on struck coins made on cast blanks.
VG
Double Struck ...

aes grave
Cast bronze issue of the Roman republic; literally "heavy bronze."
aes rude
Large cast rectangular bronze coin, one of the earliest Roman coins.

Caligula Æ Cast Sestertius after Cavino, probably 18th or 19th century, imitating types of Rome Mint. C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT, laureate head left / AGRIPPINA DRVSILLA IVLIA, three sisters of Caligula as goddesses, SC in ex.
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The coin is cast rather than struck. (Plating might conceal that.)
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The zero in the date leans strongly to the left whereas in the genuine coins the zero is more upright.

(a) by making a cast in a mould from an original coin, or (b) by making an electrotype, also from an original coin, or (c) by engraving false dies and striking the forgery.

This image of a cast, tooled 1804 fake was emailed to me by a woman in the Philippines, saying the piece weighed 26.6g and had a lettered edge. She asked my opinion about its authenticity.

1. The aes grave cast for currency in Latium and Central Italy is for the most part contemporary with the Roman Libral aes grave of Period II, B.C. 312-286 (see supra, p. 19).
According to Haeberlin (op. cit.) it comprises the following series:- ...

Counterstamp shows cast bubbles (?) as well as file marks. Modern forgery.

A few of my favorites (surprise) are the Disneyland Cast Member issues of Ron Dominguez, Bill Hogarth, and Jack Steiner.
Note: The "e" so often mentioned in coin descriptions is the Eurolink logo, often seen next to the gripper.

cast blanks Planchets made by a mold method, rather than being cut from strips of metal. cast counterfeit A replication of a genuine coin usually created by making molds of the obverse and reverse, then casting base metal in the molds.

That the coin blank which was cut out from a cast sheet of silver, was rectangular in shape is noticed by observing edge#1 which is straight (figure 7). Figure 8 and 9 clearly shows the signs of shearing operation.

There are also large and small cast bronze pieces of Olbia (aes grave) with a head of Athena, of a goddess with flowing hair to front, with an ear of corn above her forehead, or a Gorgoneion, on the obverse; ...

The act provided that the State Assayer was to refine and assay gold dust and cast it into ingots weighing a minimum of two troy ounces. These pieces were to bear the state name, value, weight, and carats of the ingot.

In 1948, Johnson again ran for the Senate, this time winning the primary with a final victory by a margin of 87 votes, out of nearly 900,000 cast, giving him the nickname "Landslide Lyndon".

To begin with, the huge majority of coins are struck ,(ie. their design has been impressed upon them by means of a hammer or other form of compression.) therefore if a coin has a mold line along its edge (showing that it was cast), it is a copy.

Once the plasters are complete a silicone cast is made from each plaster (you can see one of these silicones in the first image on this page).

Whereas the other two examples of this countermarked coin of Apollodotos II have original undertypes, this coin of Shailendra's seems to be cast, with the countermark being part of the mould design. The coin is light at 8.53 gm.

There are older cap gun collectors that collect the cast iron models of the 1930's and 1940's. The guns the baby boomers collect are the die cast metal ones that you see in the book.

The seller puts up for auction every couple of weeks the same several dozen cast counterfeits using a new eBay I.D. each time. All are private auctions.

Small cast figure of duck or goose, 24mm long by 21mm tall, dark brown patina with small spots of encrustation, CHOICE condition....$75 SOLD Photo
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Coins during the Empire were struck (rather than cast). There were no assembly lines or punching machines--each coin was struck by hand.

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury; and many that were rich cast in much, And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

ring test A test used to determine whether a coin was struck or is an electrotype or cast copy. The coin in question is balanced on a finger and gently tapped with a metal object- a pen, another coin, and so on.

The coins were called "cast coins", because of the way they were manufactured in the form of a casting. These were iron and copper coins and were inscribed with four characters on the obverse, KON WON CHUNG BO, "Lasting, Original, Heavy Currency".

The cities of Tuder in Umbria, Hatria in Picenum, and Luceria and Venusia in Apulia all contributed a substantial output of cast bronze coins, in addition to other centers not all of which have yet been identified.

The American Numismatic Association Money Museum hosts an exhibit, "The Die Cast: Money of the Ancient World." You'll get the opportunity to learn about coins from the 7th Century B.C. through 476 A.D., the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Dahlonega and Charlotte coins often have a green-gold cast, due to the alloy's high silver content, and are typically weakly struck on irregular planchets.

This one is a modern cast fake, as pointed out 1974/75 by Gregory Brunk in his
3 part series, "The Ancient Countermarks", which appeared in the Nov., Dec. 1974 and Jan. 1975 issues of the "Numismatist".
Below 4 more such fakes: ...

- a coin that was made by pouring melted metal into a mold or cast. Not made by striking a die against a blank like most coins. Casting was a common process used to try to counterfeit coins. cabinet friction ...

When referring to ancient coins, or coins made on cast metal discs, the term flan is frequently used instead of blank or planchet.
Examples:
The blank must be turned into a planchet before it can become an actual struck U.S. coin.

Has the coin ever been re-struck? Confusingly, in some instances, coins have been reproduced by a country using an old design cast.
For instance, Swiss and French franc were produced in the 1940s using an old die cast, and bearing an older date.

We went "extreme" and learned how to cast jewelry as well. It took us years to research this ancient craft and yes, we are going to share it with you in our next tutorial.
Also read about jewlry scales ...

The original die from which working dies are cast. New working dies can be taken from the master die as the wear out or break. See the How Coins Are Made article for more information.
Matte Proof ...

Old coins are a work of engraving art cast in metal. We make rare coin collecting more enjoyable by providing the history of the most common US coins. And we also offer many foreign collectible coins for sale.

Tola bars: gold bars measured in tolas, the most popular of which is the 10-tola cast bar (3.75 troy oz). Although manufactured in Europe, tola bars are traded primarily in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and Singapore.

The current market is overrun with fakes of ancient Chinese knife, spade, cash, and related cast bronze objects.

See also: Coin, Silver, Struck, Point, Revers