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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3208980, member: 93416&quot;]Thanks for the thoughts insider</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Afraid that was not at all clear to me.&nbsp; Look at the left side of the obverse.&nbsp; A curve of deeper pitting.&nbsp; My money is on that being because there was a second coin stacked on it in the ground, and the pitting it got in the ground was slightly accelerated along the join by that circumstance.&nbsp; I have seen that many more times than I can count.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But I already answered that – when I said</p><p><br /></p><p>EWC3: The soil is not a machine turning out coins with lovely patinas, <span style="color: #0000ff">or indeed any other consistent result. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If so I am giving my opinion that that consensus is wrong – but I am not surprised to hear it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, that is my main point. Your ordinary collector is very prone to say dismissively – “it was damaged by cleaning”. And they are most times wrong – the damage was most times already there – cleaning just revealed it</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be very surprised to hear the initial coin was anything but a genuine coin, damaged by corrosion in the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>A side issue maybe, but errors about these sort of matters are widespread. Here is a link to a paper I put in NC. It was put to correct a number of errors made by a member of BM staff, one of which was a serious failure to understand sub-soil corrosion in a particular case……………</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4645738/Late_Indian_Punchmarked_Coins_in_the_Mir_Zakah_II_Hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/4645738/Late_Indian_Punchmarked_Coins_in_the_Mir_Zakah_II_Hoard" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/4645738/Late_Indian_Punchmarked_Coins_in_the_Mir_Zakah_II_Hoard</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow, its great to debate with a cautious guy who puts his faith in logic and observation,</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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