1623 Poltorak, Poland, Minting technique?

N#136367

Does anybody know what is the minting technique of this coin? is it hammered or milled?

Thanks for answers!

Ma9nWaRr10

N#136367

Does anybody know what is the minting technique of this coin? is it hammered or milled?

Thanks for answers!

I wish a nice greeting to the SOUTH.

Please don't take it as a lesson - just my brief explanation - as you write on your profile: ,, What Ma9nWaRr10 collects

Hello everybody!
I am a coin collector from Hungary. I collect standard circulation coins by type. My main theme is Europe from 16th century -So if the 16th century is your main theme - take a trip to one of the museums.

Even the mint in Kremnica was under Upper Hungary- I collected my grandchildren when they were still small and went on a trip by car, here are the photos:

in the underground it will be shown how silver was mined

  Furnace for silver and ceramic crucibles for metal casting.

is it hammered or milled?

I don't know what you consider "MILL" in 1623.

In my opinion, the mint in Bydgoszcz did not yet have the most modern coin presses and was still minted manually using punches and an iron hammer -    
thus

This is from the 17th century imported to from the Eegebern mint

  So this one was one of the first imported to Kremnice immediately after its invention (the grandson admires the technology) 1573 year -they are hand presses.

This one is in Kremnica, but he tried to install a similar one in the Prague Mint in 1600-1609 minter Jan Laszan from Frideneck, The Kremnický lys was originally designed for horse power , however, after a few years it was rebuilt for water propulsion.

It continued like this

Not only that, there are many diploma theses and PDFs on the website about how minting took place in the Middle Ages, however, a personal visit is really an experience and you can also buy coins and go there yourself on their dies. You have it a few kilometers from home.

a medieval master's workshop

there are two shops outside on the square and you can buy whatever you like

My conclusion: Your coin was struck by hand by a mint master- no milling machine was used and not even one of the first hand-powered Lyses invented in those years.

just a short answer

Ahoj Ivan

I had to go back - something didn't suit me and that was the double hit on the letter "L" and the depth of the embossing.

This turning point of 1600 - 1623 would also be a possibility that the mint in Bidhošt might have already received the first manual press from Germany.

There is the mark of the master, so they are written on the website and it would be possible to find out if he had already started with this technique - those were exactly the breakthrough years in Central Europe. 

It's really quite a deep embossing requiring considerable force ( I mint it myself by hand on my coin - so I can judge it) and with that "L", the letter really looks as if the press still made a crushing impact-double impact when the screw press is turned sharply.

Perhaps only colleagues specifically in this field - I'm an amateur - so I admit this possibility as well.

To err is human - and to correct itself - I don't know what it's called?

Ivan