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| 1 | 68 | It is then View more quotes about placed">placed between the dies and the die cap is then struck, literally, with a hammer, impressing the design of the obverse and reverse simultaneously into the planchet". |
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| 1 | 65 | "Do you see how the design is slightly off center?" "Yes," I said. |
| 1 | 66 | "That is a feature almost invariably present in ancient coins," he said. |
| 1 | 67 | "The planchet is warmed, to soften the metal. |
| 1 | 68 | It is then placed between the dies and the die cap is then struck, literally, with a hammer, impressing the design of the obverse and reverse simultaneously into the planchet". |
| 1 | 69 | "Then it is an ancient coin?" I asked. |
| 1 | 70 | "That seems unlikely," he said. |
| 1 | 71 | "Yet the techniques used in striking this coin have not been used, as far as I know, for centuries". |