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Topic pretty much states it all. I was looking to make a pretty sizable pile of gold coins. Anyone have some tips?

Craft shops sell paper punches in a variety of sizes (and shapes, although round is presumably what you need for coins). They work fine on very thin plasticard, and are an easy way to create a pile of thin plasticard discs, ready for some glue and paint.

Oh, and don't make more than you need - build a 'pile' shape first from scrap plastic, ready to be covered in the coins.

Or you could roll greenstuff into a round string and cut it the width you want when it's cured.

Depends how shiny you want to make it look.. I've got several treasure tokens for Frostgrave that have been given a final sprinkling of gold glitter discs to make them pop.
But the usual route is to start off with a cylinder of plastic dowel or green stuff and cut them to fit.

For plain gold disks, I would hole punch some plasticard

for more detail, buy some dwarf/duardin bits from a bits seller and make pressmoulds

for huge piles, I'd do a pile of plasticard disks topped with GS pressmoulds

I once made a pile of coins using a hole punch and a sheet of very thin plasticard. The hole punch had a range of sizes, I used the smallest two or three to get some variety. The punch looked like this:


I sanded the discs a bit to clean up the edges then glued them down using a waterproof white glue. It takes a bit of manual work to make sure the pile of coins doesn't look too uniform and don't have any large holes, but it's doable.

Capture a tiny leprechaun of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAAj1b8m1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR80TaEc0KQ

I like the combination of glitter and really small metallic or translucent beads from the dollar store.

Sizeable?

well first easiest would be to use glitter as its already small plastic circles/polygons in about the right size. or you can do as everyone else said and punch them out or cut them from a thin thing of greenstuff after its cured.

i would suggest making the mound first out of green stuff then gluing on top of that the various disks, mold in some chests and other stuff like sword bits too.

Make a roughly base sized disk of greenstuff. Take cylinder roughly the width of the coin, like a plastic cylinder, but tiny. Start stabbing the vreenstuff hundreds of times. You now have a "negative".

Let the greenstuff dry and apply a release medium, water will suffice. Then put undried greenstuff on top.

Let the seconf layer of greenstuff dry then seperate the two layers, and voila, you have a pile of coins ready for painting.