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<p>[QUOTE="robp, post: 5142165, member: 96746"]The images are from wax impressions taken from the coins and then trimmed. You sometimes find slight irregularities at the edge - bits can be chopped off or a dig added to the impression which wasn't noticed. I saw the edge too, but the small mark on the rim by the I of HIB and one on the reverse at 9 o'clock plus the agreement of all the larger pits in the flan such as by the arms and behind the king add up to something that wasn't on the die, and the chance of two identically marked flans is essentially zero.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the OP it looks like the die axis is inverted, with the obverse bottom lump at 12 o'clock on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robp, post: 5142165, member: 96746"]The images are from wax impressions taken from the coins and then trimmed. You sometimes find slight irregularities at the edge - bits can be chopped off or a dig added to the impression which wasn't noticed. I saw the edge too, but the small mark on the rim by the I of HIB and one on the reverse at 9 o'clock plus the agreement of all the larger pits in the flan such as by the arms and behind the king add up to something that wasn't on the die, and the chance of two identically marked flans is essentially zero. From the OP it looks like the die axis is inverted, with the obverse bottom lump at 12 o'clock on the reverse.[/QUOTE]
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