Definition

• Bars or strips of gold and silver used in European mints in the late 1800s were usually 15 to 24 inches (38 cm to 60 cm) long. Their width was rarely more than two inches (5 cm), and this related to the diameter of the planchets and the number of blanks created from that width. The width of bars were usually the diameter of the largest coins being produced. Sometimes bars were a narrower width for medium diameter coins. Bars were cold rolled into fillets. The thinner the bars were cast, the less effort was needed in the rolling mill. The rollers varied from 3 to 12 inches (8 cm to 30 cm) in diameter. Drawbenches were sometimes used in the final phases of adjusting fillet thicknesses.

Source

• Numiscadero Spanish to English Glossary (Gary Beals)

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