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.

Read more about Hammered Coinage:  History, Hammered Coin Production

Famous quotes containing the words hammered and/or coinage:

    “The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.”
    —Japanese proverb.

    “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)