"P.W. Rowe, moderator, r.c.j." wrote in
message ...

Making the dies is
the tool and die makers art. Generally one does not buy them, unless one
gets
lucky and finds what is needed in some old defunct manufacturers stock, or
on
ebay where such antique dies may be sold, etc.

There's a guy on the re-enactment scene in the UK who is making coin dies
for historic coins, all marked so that collectors know that the resultant
coins are modern copies.

He's charges reasonably low prices for his dies, less than £120 (about
$200) last I heard.

--
William Black
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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government