Hammered Coinage

Hammered coinage is the most common form of coins produced since the invention of coins in the first millennium BC until the early modern period of ca. the 15th–17th centuries.

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Famous quotes containing the words hammered and/or coinage:

    “Then he told the news media
    the strange details of his death
    and they hammered him up in the marketplace
    and sold him and sold him and sold him.
    My death the same.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)