perhaps the most retarded idea I've ever had

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Might be a long shot but what about buying .999 Silver Grain and then having a trustworthy metal working person cast them into coins/rounds? Would be able to get it as close to spot price as you could get? Half retarded but half practical, making a metal casting mold would take a blacksmith probably a day once a design had been chosen, potentially 3D printed, then sand casted to make a negative then cast into a metal mold made of iron or steel then it's pretty much smelt silver, dump it in, close mold and dunk in water. Maybe find a company that does castings, do little 1 oz silver 3d kiwis.

I know there are a handful of right wing/alt right blacksmith types who may be willing to do the work on slim margins, but you would likely be stuck ponying up the cash for all the silver up front trying to do something yourself, so may be worth doing a super limited run like 100 oz of silver.
 
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@Null heard about your chris idea on stream, and I got you fam. Rough draft

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"Milk Flows Eternal"
 
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Null said:
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This is way more than I was expecting tbh. I don't see why he'd be charging $10 over spot for the metal (literally a >33% profit already) and then an additional $7 per strike. At that rate I'd be looking at selling coins over double the spot, and even then at $56, that'd not make as much money as the manufacturer itself for the run. That's a big bummer.
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For silver coins I'd buy a few (up to 4) at that price.
 
Breakfast_Guru88 said:
Might be a long shot but what about buying .999 Silver Grain and then having a trustworthy metal working person cast them into coins/rounds?
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Regular Western-style coins are die-struck, not cast though.
Alternatively, you could do as the ancient Indians did and just roll out sheets of silver, cut them to the right weight, and hammer stamps into them.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
Regular Western-style coins are die-struck, not cast though.
Alternatively, you could do as the ancient Indians did and just roll out sheets of silver, cut them to the right weight, and hammer stamps into them.
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I am just going off my brief exposure to metal working from a family friend who does 18th century handmade metal working and casts random things in his spare time including decorative metal buttons for his 18th century style clothing, which are round, flat and embossed. I know a lot of exchanges will have hand cast figurines and the like which sell for a premium but would be in line with the concept of making something kiwi specific.
 
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