Talk:Coinage metals

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Do these count? Double sharp (talk) 07:42, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think NO. This is only "self made" for element collectors, not as official coins. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 14:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. However, their list might be useful to determine if the elements were ever previously used as coinage metals. Double sharp (talk) 02:26, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sort (roughly) by usage

Would it make sense to sort the metals in the list by how common it is rather than alphabetically, or at least ensure that metals commonly in use in everyday coins, and metals used in one-time medals, are not mixed together? I think that'd be useful! 188.62.168.201 (talk) 22:52, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Metallium element series coins

I've removed an element list with the above header and a "reference" which was to a promo sales page. Vsmith (talk) 23:57, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Elements that have been used

From Metallium: Be, B, C, Mg, Al, P, S, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Se, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Te, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Hf, Ta, Ir, Pt, Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, U (the uranium one is alas not offered for sale).

The missing ones are H, He, Li, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Si, Cl, Ar, K, Mn, Ge, As, Br, Kr, Rb, I, Xe, Cs, W, Re, Os, Th. (I'm not counting any non-primordials; I'm not counting Pu either because it's impractical and there exist by now only traces of primordial ²⁴⁴Pu). These are mostly the gases (for which "striking" is hard to define) and the alkali metals (where the reactivity is a very serious problem). Discounting them, the missing ones are Si (privately struck Ni-Si alloys have been used); Mn (present in some US circulating coins, but not pure Mn, I think); Ge (never heard of it being used), As (ditto), Br (this would have to be like the Hg "coin", with liquid mercury or bromine sloshing inside), I (never heard of it being used), W (apparently a few private demos have been done), Re (ditto), Os (never heard of it being used), and Th (now this would be interesting, but I've never heard of it)! Double sharp (talk) 06:58, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Classical Coinage-Metals

Maybe, we should mention that the the classic coinage-metals (copper, silver, and gold) all com from electrum:

Electrum was a popular coinage-metal until people discovered that it is a natural alloy of the 4 components of copper, silver, gold, and other. Gold, silver, and copper stick together because of their chemical properties. After we discovered that electrum is an alloy, we made coins from the componet-metals, e.g. copper, silver, gold.

Coins can be made of any metals. Nowadays, precious-metal coins can be made of platnum-group metals or coins can be made of steel, aluminum, et cetera.