Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.
OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:
This would be one half of the mold, I believe. The second one would fit tightly in to it, helping to create the full coin, with its' opposite face. The triangular and rectangular projections would fit in to corresponding depressions in the opposite mold.
Here are more examples of these, plus the finished coins, etc. (turn on translate)
https://sucai.redocn.com/yishuwenhua_7837639.html
That is so freaking cool! I'm always way more interested in ancient methods of production rather than the products themselves. It's so neat how even after 2000 years, the methods for making molds hasn't changed all that much.
3rd episode is about the history of money in China ☞ https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-027320/the-fabulous-history-of-money/