Commemorative Coins 900th Anniversary Leeds Castle (2018/19)

Started as a university project, but stemmed into a new interest!

Laser cut acrylic discs with 9 different 'Heads' designs and a 'Tails' design cut 9 times

Silicone casting of the discs

Pouring Wax into the mould

Cooled wax discs

Marrying the 'Heads' and 'Tails' discs together to get a coin

Spruing the coins onto a tree, ready to investment cast and start the Lost Wax casting process

Coins cast in metal and polished up, ready to be embedded in vulcanised rubber to make injection mould, so the wax casting process would be easier

Polished and Shiny Coins, Heads

Polished and Shiny Coins, Tails

Leeds Castle was having its 900th anniversary, so for my Uni project I decided to make some commemorative coins for the occasion featuring a person of relevance from each century starting at the 11/12th and finishing at the 20th century. The coins and designs were laser cut onto acrylic in two halves, Heads and Tails, then silicone cast so I was able to fill the mould with wax to be able to cast them as a solid coin out of Bronze, This was a really fun project and got me interested into the minting process of coins and more interested into the jewellery and silversmithing side of things as I was working in the jewellers workshop and learned some of the techniques.