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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1865385, member: 42773&quot;]A shallow, filled-in crack is by no means an indicator of forgery all by itself. Many collectors of ancients see cracks as post-mint damage, but that&#039;s not always the case. Any number of factors can contribute to a cracked coin: an uneven strike, a non-homogenous alloy, an improperly annealed flan, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I see a crack like that, it looks to me like it was created at the time of the strike. The flan cracked under striking pressure, but the hot metal inside the coin glued itself back together, somewhat - not enough to erase the crack but to fill the inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have this denarius of Glabrio, and I believe the crack on this coin was caused by the strike...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s14.postimg.org/p79flga0h/Glabrio.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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