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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1791086, member: 56859&quot;]Hmmm, can you walk me through your thought process? I&#039;m not seeing how this provides the evidence one way or another. Admittedly though, I have not studied the centration pit issue.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, it doesn&#039;t make any sense to me for a central bump to be part of the die. It would be unnecessarily difficult for the engraver and would serve no purpose that I can see. I think a central die bump would make the flan tip unsteadily when placed on the die, increasing the chance of an off-center or otherwise poor strike.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Edit:&nbsp; Oh, I get it now.&nbsp; At first I thought the central thing on this coin&#039;s reverse was in relief.&nbsp; It&#039;s not.&nbsp; It has the same shadow pattern as the rest of the devices, so it must be incuse.&nbsp; Therefore, that incuse dimple must be on the flan.&nbsp; The brockage-producing coin it was struck with must have lined up pretty well with that dimple because I don&#039;t see any moved/raised metal nearby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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