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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2880366, member: 19463&quot;]It most certainly could and the why to prove it would require destroying the coin.&nbsp; Prying might be difficult but the whole thing could be mounted in a matrix and sawed into thin sections which could determine whether there was detain in the middle or not.&nbsp; You could cut crosswise and probably tell.&nbsp; You could shave (microtome?)&nbsp; successive layers from the surface and see if an outline emerges.&nbsp; When finished you would know and the coin would be no more.&nbsp; I prefer to say, &quot;I wonder.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to come up with a wild guess as to why your coin fused and mine did not it might involve whether or not there was some foreign matter (grease???) between the two or if the alignment of the flans may have been better on one than the other.&nbsp; There is also the possibility that yours may have been hotter when struck causing them to fuse better.&nbsp; How may ways can we say that we do not know? We can come up with theories.&nbsp; We even could fund a massive study trying to duplicate conditions but probably making errors that would invalidate results.&nbsp; We have great minds investigating questions of theoretical physics and having issues &#039;proving&#039; theories.&nbsp; Theoretical numismatics hardly seems likely to become the next thing they investigate.&nbsp;&nbsp; Meanwhile, enjoy the coin.&nbsp; It is a keeper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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