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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1652982, member: 42773&quot;]I don&#039;t believe it has to be an either/or proposition. From what I&#039;ve gathered, the Romans definitely punched flans from sheets, but it&#039;s also possible they used molds. It&#039;s also possible both techniques could have been used concurrently, although I have no sources to document that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as my Nabataeans go, some coins are struck on flans that were clearly punched out of thin sheets with nice, round punches. Others are thicker, with square edges, and at least point to the idea that they were roughly cut from ingots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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