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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1377687, member: 26302&quot;]Interesting post Doug. I had not considered light shadows from the photograph. I just have experience with many cast ancients, and I would say about half of them have a line like the OP coin appears to have regardless of thickness. It appears when they copy a coin, but then when making the cast they make slightly too large a flan, so this extra &quot;lip&quot; is formed, basically a second field level where the cast flan had no original to copy. It is just an earmark or a poor cast copy, along with line around the edges that could or could not be filed off. </p><p><br /></p><p>If there are other reasons that lip could be formed it is news to me. Maybe I simply have been around too many poor fakes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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