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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 843307, member: 21705&quot;]These are examples of using previously minted coins as planchets:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228" rel="nofollow">http://www.icollector.com/A-display-of-5-Gallery-Mint-products-reproductions-to_i8599228</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t98665/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t98665/">http://www.cointalk.com/t98665/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe there are far more examples of restriking a planchet with the same dies several times due to a poor initial strike and misaligning the planchet as they tried to repeat the strikes to raise detail. I believe multiple striking was required to bring out detail for much of the 18th and 19th century and into the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless the final strike is off center, the undertyping is easily confused with bag marks or friction marks since the earlier strikes are mostly obliterated in the subsequent striking. It might also be confused with clashing except that it would have a normal orientation rather than the reversed and flipped orientation of clashes. It might also be confused with die breaks except that they change from planchet to planchet rather than progress from coin to coin like the die breaks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I&#039;m VERY early in the learning curve on this and am seeking to find as much information on this as possible. Going down wrong trails on this is not only possible, but probable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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