There are a lot of cool materials suitable for making coins, but interesting alloy blanks aren't widely available to mints. Electrum like you brought up is a workable enough material but its just not commercially available. Specialty materials could be done, but it just would have to be very small batches by artisans rather than mint struck coins. I do a lot of metalwork myself and I end up having to alloy everything myself because even though some alloys are just vastly superior in all regards to what we'd consider the standard, they just aren't vanilla enough to be commercially worth it for big companies to change their ways.
The blanking process requires ingots of the metal be poured, the metal is then rolled into sheets of a uniform thickness and cut out with dies into blanks. If the alloy doesn't have machinable properties like most old alloys that were simply cast and hammer struck, they'll never be available for people to make coins from.
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Nice creativity and personally I’ve always had a fondness for Jade - hope you can come up with something workable. Problem with anything like this , would be that they any coin produced would pretty much have to be hand made and unique , ie , no cast etc and thus there would be a premium price . Still love this idea though 
Always liked wood too as a material, but it’s been done a few times - just ask Theymos and TeeGUMES
Always liked wood too as a material, but it’s been done a few times - just ask Theymos and TeeGUMES
Amber from some areas have the BTC color.
I´m not sure how realistic it would be but I have always been fascinated with wooden coins. A well done wooden coin would be extremely pretty. Most likely a pain to produce in large quantities though.
Hi All,
There seems to be a big emphasis on Gold, Silver, Coppper and Brass used in
the making of collectible crypto coins, which is all good.
I have seen coins listed here before in Aluminium , Stainless Steel, PlatinumI think
and Bronze I think but I was wondering lately what other types
of materials or even metal alloy's would be cool and different to produce
collectible coins in?
My first thought went to Jade, and I havent seen anything in Jade with a
Bitcoin theme, how cool would that be be create a Satoshi coin from a
distinctly oriental material?
http://numismatics.org/collection/1937.179.19388
As regards metal alloys there are many which have been used in ancient coinage
like Electrum which is an alloy of Gold and Silver. I'm not sure how difficult is is
to make these materials and how difficult it is to work with them, has anyone
considered different materials for making Collectible Crypto Coinage I wonder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum#Early_coinage
From that wiki page there are other alloys listed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_bronze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchaloha
There seems to be a big emphasis on Gold, Silver, Coppper and Brass used in
the making of collectible crypto coins, which is all good.
I have seen coins listed here before in Aluminium , Stainless Steel, PlatinumI think
and Bronze I think but I was wondering lately what other types
of materials or even metal alloy's would be cool and different to produce
collectible coins in?
My first thought went to Jade, and I havent seen anything in Jade with a
Bitcoin theme, how cool would that be be create a Satoshi coin from a
distinctly oriental material?
http://numismatics.org/collection/1937.179.19388
As regards metal alloys there are many which have been used in ancient coinage
like Electrum which is an alloy of Gold and Silver. I'm not sure how difficult is is
to make these materials and how difficult it is to work with them, has anyone
considered different materials for making Collectible Crypto Coinage I wonder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum#Early_coinage
From that wiki page there are other alloys listed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_bronze
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It is thought to be an alloy of copper with gold or silver (or both)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatizon
Quote
also known as black Corinthian bronze, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity.
It is thought to be an alloy of copper with the addition of a small proportion of gold and silver
(perhaps as little as 8% of each), mixed and treated to produce a material with a dark purplish patina,
similar to the colour of liver
It is thought to be an alloy of copper with the addition of a small proportion of gold and silver
(perhaps as little as 8% of each), mixed and treated to produce a material with a dark purplish patina,
similar to the colour of liver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchaloha
Quote
Panchaloha is traditionally described as an alloy of gold, silver, copper, zinc, and iron.
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