(who can afford a $1000 press?)
I'm sure people would entrust friends to make their coinage for them.
Ah, true. Just like how you can bake bread in your own house but would rather let a baker handle it. Superior products from superior services. But I think the important part is getting the bare backbone laid out as cheaply as possible. The goal is to flood the market with these coins right? After the most simple yet effective way is figured out, for the willing activist more fancier ways may be purchased and utilized. Every step of the coin making process can be made better (even how it cools in the mold) but priorities are there.
Here's what I have so far:
Take an old blank template and create a mold out of plaster of paris(
: I think that would work)
Melt the silver in a small container and pour it into the mold.
Weigh and shave appropriately the remaining blank until it reaches 1 troy ounce (or half,etc depending on the die).
place it between the die and pound with a hammer a certain number of times.
I think that is the absolutely simplest way.
I'm researching now how to melt down mixed metals (coins/jewlery/junk) and separate the silver.