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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1802709, member: 19463&quot;]I suspect the guys who poured silver into individual coin flans got very good at estimating rather like your grandmother could cook without a fancy set of 1/4 teaspoons.&nbsp; I also have suspected that some issues were either done better than others or held to a more strict standards simply because I have seen more scoop adjusted coins for some issues than others.&nbsp; I recall seeing more than one other coin of M. Volteus as shown above that had a scoop.&nbsp; That could mean that the guy who poured the flans started with more metal and did more adjusting or that other issues cheated a bit more and started with exactly the right amount of metal and were able to pour exactly the right number of coins with greater skill making scooping unnecessary.&nbsp;&nbsp; Answers to these questions would require examination of a thousand coins of each type and I am lucky to have one.&nbsp; Perhaps we will eventually have huge databases starting with data we have from CNG, acsearch etc. and people with free time can find patterns previously only open to museum workers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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