Not Coins, But Silver

Hi Joker, I just sent you an email asking if you had photos, and here I found it! Nice grouping. Glad you like them.

Your faux roman coins are in the original packaging! Very nice. Most of my packaging deteriorated. I personally put all the packages together... in fact I did almost all the in-house work back then, including making and weighing the shot, filling the molds, building the mold 'bundles', firing and repairing the electric kiln, burnishing the planchets, sitting with the punch press operator, evaluating and re-weighing each ingot, packaging, delivering, answering phones, keeping records (sorry I don't have them anymore), plus running around to engravers, machinists, metal and graphite sellers, stamping shops, precious metals companies, and on and on. Whew! good thing I was young and peppy!

Everyone, jokingjoker has been padding his post count so he could write to me! Very flattering. I didn't realize the 50 post rule so no wonder I wasn't receiving much email about the USVI Ingot article. One of these days I need to finish writing about the company. Maybe one day Howard Eichen will find us here, register, and say hello. He was an inventor who spent many hours designing new ways to create planchets and stamp silver into ingots.