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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 7844798, member: 75482&quot;]Clichés aren&#039;t so much struck as &quot;filled&quot;, which is the literal meaning of <i>fourrée</i>. That&#039;s why I wrote &quot;sort of&quot;. A silver foil shell is created by sandwiching and carefully hammering the foil between a genuine coin and a pair of soft lead plates. The genuine coin is removed and the thin silver shell is filled with molten base metal, using the lead plates as an outer form to hold everything in place... not strictly &#039;cast&#039; but at the same time, not &#039;struck&#039; in the usual sense. The description in Boon is probably better than the Wikipedia article.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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