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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7315087, member: 75937&quot;]The flans themselves were cast of molten bronze. Jere M. Wickens, in his essay, &quot;<a href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/ESSAYS/PRODUCTION.HTML" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/ESSAYS/PRODUCTION.HTML" rel="nofollow">The Production of Ancient Coins</a>,&quot; written for <a href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/INTRO/CONTENTS.HTML" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/INTRO/CONTENTS.HTML" rel="nofollow"><i>Bearers of Meaning: The Otillia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University</i></a>, notes that flans &quot;were cast en chapelet, that is, using open or closed moulds in which a number of mould hollows were connected by channels.&quot; This resulted in a &#039;runner&#039; or sprue between the cast flans, which would be removed before striking. Sometimes, the process of breaking off the sprue removed a chunk from the flan&#039;s edge, leaving what is known as a &#039;flan chip.&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin has two flan chips, one at 11:00 and the other at 5:00. Here&#039;s one of my coins with two flan chips:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gordian-and-tranquillina-tomis-nemesis-jpg.644083/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gordian III, with Tranquillina. A.D. 238-244.</p><p>Roman provincial AE 4.5 assaria; 28.92 mm, 15.89 g, 7:00</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Tomis, A.D. 241-244; Magistrate Pontianus</p><p>Obv: AVT K M ANTΩNIOC ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC // [C]ABINIA (TP)AN / KVΛΛINA, confronted laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian right and diademed, draped bust of Tranquillina left</p><p>Rev: MHTPO ΠONTOV TOMEΩC, Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding arshin (rod) and sling, wheel at feet; Δ - &lt; (denomination) in fields</p><p>Refs: AMNG I 3537; Varbanov 5701; Moushmov 2279; Cf. SNG Cop 305.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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