Osborne Mint 2
Part of Osborne’s current building used to house this kind of business before they MOOOOved.
WHAT IS A MEAT PACKING PLANT?
Turning an idea into computerized artwork usable for making a coin is part of this very first part of the minting process.
WHAT IS THE DESIGN PROCESS?
Our shilling’s obverse features our club’s name in Latin along with a Knight doing this.
WHAT IS RIDING A HORSE?
This is how many shillings are in a pound.
WHAT IS 20?
The OSSO home was originally started to take care of orphans of people who fought in this war.
WHAT IS THE CIVIL WAR?
This type of older coin press used inertia from a spinning wheel to generate enough tons of pressure to mint a coin (and we got to spin the wheel).
WHAT IS A SCREW PRESS?
Before you can have coins, you have to cut these out of the kind of metal you want to use.
WHAT ARE BLANKS or PLANCHETS?
Our first “business strike” coin was struck for LKNS members to use at this end of the year event.
WHAT IS THE LKNS AUCTION?
Twelve of these make a shilling.
WHAT IS A PENNY?
This is what “O.S.S.O. Home” stands for.
WHAT IS OHIO SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ ORPHANS’ HOME?
One of the oldest type presses in the Osborne Mint required pulling a rope to raise a weight, which would then fall like a hammer to mint a coin, giving it this name.
WHAT IS A DROP HAMMER PRESS?
Another name for die cutting, this term means cutting a design into metal.
WHAT IS ENGRAVING?
The LKNS Shilling features a Roman numeral denomination of XII, which stands for the number of these in a shilling.
WHAT IS 12 PENCE?
Five shillings is equal to one of these.
WHAT IS A CROWN?
The O.S.S.O. Home didn’t have their own currency, except for scrip they used downtown when shopping for this holiday.
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?
Osborne Coinage (under a earlier name) for a short time minted both US and Confederate coins during this war.
WHAT IS THE CIVIL WAR?
These machines generate anywhere from 30 to 2000 tons of pressure to push a design into a piece of metal to make a coin.
WHAT IS A COIN PRESS?
Our first shilling’s reverse features a bridge found on our campus with the caption “PONTEM ANTE PORTAS”, which is Latin for this.
WHAT IS ‘BRIDGE AT THE FRONT GATES’?
This coin is half a shilling.
WHAT IS A SIXPENCE?
The O.S.S.O. Home had uniforms for the boys who performed military training; some of which featured these items of numismatic interest.
WHAT ARE MEDALS?
Osborne Mint calls itself “the oldest private mint in America” because it traces its history back to this year.
WHAT IS 1835?
These coin-like items are made on a high speed press where quantity and functionality are more important than beauty.
WHAT ARE TOKENS?
The bridge on our first shilling’s reverse “bridges” the history between the present school, Legacy Christian Academy, and this, the first organization to have a school here.
WHAT IS THE OHIO SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ ORPHANS’ HOME?
A quarter of a penny is called this.
WHAT IS A FARTHING?
In spite of what the O.S.S.O. students called it, the front entrance to campus never really had these.
WHAT ARE GATES?