Preparation of dies for striking Roman coins

[Mark Farrell]

All,

I'm trying to gather some background on how dies were prepared for striking Roman coins. The topic came up in another thread and it has captured my interest. I have nothing on this in my rather meager library, so I am reaching out for suggestions.

Does anyone know of articles involving discussions of this topic? Perhaps in Numismatic Chronicle or some other source?

Your assistance is much appreciated, thanks.

Mark

[black-prophet]

I am not sure if this is what your looking for -but this link has an introduction and page on the setting of dies(just click on 'the striking of coins') and although they are talking about Byzantine coins I believe the Romans used the same method.

http://www.doaks.org/CoinExhibition/Introduction/Frame_Introduction.html

[Mark Farrell]

Thanks, it's a start.

[slokind]

As for J. Babelon, he was extremely good on fabrication.  Sure, some work has been done since, but he was very thorough and very sound.  https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=35624.0  Pat L.

[Mark Farrell]

Thanks, Pat. I'll check him out.

Mark