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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1371336, member: 26302&quot;]You would be surprised in my estimation at what people accept as normal and &quot;just part of money&quot;. There are loads of examples. Take chinese cash. When other people copied them, since this is what &quot;money&quot; looked like, they copied the design but not the reason. The Chinese put square holes in the cash to put them on a square rod so excess metal could be easily filed away. Others made the coins look like the Chinese ones, but you can tell never put them on square rods for ease of production. They simply copied what looked like &quot;money&quot; to them, without understanding why. Same with limes coins, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine this treatment of planchets was developed and was needed when the Ptolemy&#039;s struck their massive bronzes, and it continued later simply because, &quot;that is what they look like&quot;. Just an opinion though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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