Regarding Making Leather Coins:
You can acheive amazing results using magnesium stamping dies. Im no CNC expert but you can get much more detail using dies made from photoengraved magnesium than you can from a CNC made die. Plus its super cheap. Costs less than $2 per square inch.
You would want to stamp your design and cut out your perimeter in two passes. No need to combine the actions as it would increase the tooling cost dramatically. The order would be up to your personal preference. I have done this on keychain fobs and other scrap pieces of 5-6 oz tooling leather. The detail is unbelievable.
If I can dig up some of these old pieces Ill be happy to post a photo of them.
Due to the way photoengraved dies are produced, you actually get a 3d effect because your outline receives a bevel, whose slope is a function of the temperature of the etching solution.
If you arent up to all of this, and would like to have someone do it all for you, Id be happy to help out. All I really need from you would be your design specs, and a line art drawing or print out of the artwork you want to appear on the leather coin.
Hope someone finds this reply of interest
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