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Message:: [QUOTE="Detecto92, post: 1769580, member: 75105"]Not so fast.. I am on the fence with PMD. Whatever was struck into it, bulged out the other side, without bending the coin itself. If the coin was mounted in a vice, it would bend before it could to that. The edges of the coin appear to have no damage. This means that it was not sandwiched, but rather laid flat, and whatever struck it was smaller than the coin itself. This is something that would take a tremendous amount of pressure. If you simply took a chisel and a hammer and gave it a good whack, it would dent the coin, surely, but it would not be enough pressure to come out the back like that. Even if you could, it would just blow out the back, it would not conform to the shape of the opposite side. What I mean is, the back would be dented outward in a large area, much larger than the dent on the other side. Imagine taking a screw driver and whacking it into tin can, you would leave a mark, but you would also leave a dent. So whatever did this damage, used tremendous (in excess of 10,000 pounds) pressure, in a very quick motion. Hmm...what has high pressure and strikes quickly? I know, a coin die. If something got caught between the coin and the die, it could possibly strike with enough force to dent it into the die on the other side. I will leave the experts to this one, but I'm saying it's possible...[/QUOTE]