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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2905521, member: 10461&quot;]I might be wrong, but it sounds like you&#039;re describing something akin to die clashing there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Think of ghosting as being more a case of there not being enough metal in these somewhat thin flans.&nbsp; Once the pressure of the strike moved that metal into the recesses of the obverse die to create the portrait, it left a slightly depressed area on the opposite side of the coin.&nbsp; A &quot;ghost&quot; of the king&#039;s portrait.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It has more to do with the way the metal was moved during the strike than it does with the dies themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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