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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Still metallurgy is not cheap in terms of energy when you only have wood to burn!

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Funnily, with gold you don't even need heat for things like forming coins.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 points 7 hours ago

If i recall correctly, you can hammer the coin when it's cold to put the decorations on it, but you still need to melt the metal at some point to get it at the right thickness and give it the circular shape. I may be wrong tho