Before you can pick up the quest, you need to choose the right options from a lengthy dialog with the quest giver. Giving the wrong answer can mean you have to start the whole dialog from the start. The correct answers are:
You could use carbonite instead of wood and the coat the metal in a thin layer of gold.
Because the whole coin isn't made of gold, it's just lightly coated, so it looks more real.
You know, if you give me that key you keep hitting I could get you some carbonite.
You could heat up and hit the carbonite to make coins.
It's because you have to mold the metal; you can't just hit it and expect it to look like a coin.
First you melt the carbonite in the fire.
Then you pour the melted metal into a mold made from a real coin.
Then you let it cool.
Then you dip it in the melted gold and put it back in the mold.
This article refers to events, personae and activities only present in-game during the annual Frostfell celebration. Frostfell comes to Norrath each year from (roughly) the second week of December to the first week of January.