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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 844038, member: 112&quot;]Jim I suggest to you that the coin you post about is struck - not cast. Cast coins do not ring, they clunk or go thud. And the Chinese counterfeiters are not making cast coins, they are striking them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grainy effect you see on this coin is typical of electrotype dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what I see by the date looks to be more like the tip of a wheat stalk from a die clash than anything else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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