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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2532335, member: 19463&quot;]Mine is as small and inconsequential as yours is large but both show what I considered to be an interesting technical situation or two.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]541387[/ATTACH] </p><p>The flans were cast in a two part mold that was not aligned perfectly so there is a ledge around the edge.&nbsp; This is not rare for this reign but most others seem to have been cast in an openface mold that does not make this offset. Not all these are this off center but I wanted the odd flan for my technical collection.&nbsp; This one was bought from David Hendin while he was still selling coins. Those into the subject may enjoy his blog:</p><p><a href="http://davidhendin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://davidhendin.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://davidhendin.blogspot.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As I understand it (I do not read Paleo-Hebrew!) it was considered necessary to cut some of the legend on this coin retrograde to avoid a sacrilege involving the name of God.&nbsp; I do not have details on this story but would appreciate it if someone has it (perhaps explained in one of the books???).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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