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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2761610, member: 75937&quot;]Post your coins that show evidence of pre-striking flan preparation! </p><p><br /></p><p>Jere M. Wickens, in his essay, &quot;<a href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/essays/production.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/essays/production.html" rel="nofollow">The Production of Ancient Coins</a>,&quot; written for <i><a href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/INTRO/CONTENTS.HTML" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www2.lawrence.edu/dept/art/BUERGER/INTRO/CONTENTS.HTML" rel="nofollow">Bearers of Meaning: The Otillia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University</a></i>, notes that flans &quot;were cast <i>en chapelet</i>, that is, using open or closed moulds in which a number of mould hollows were connected by channels. Clear evidence for this method exists; the runners that connected the flans were not always completely removed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This denarius of Julia Domna shows evidence of such a runner at the edge of the flan at the 9:00 position of the obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]634796[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julia Domna, issued under Septimius Severus </p><p>Roman AR denarius; 3.24 gm, 19.8 mm </p><p>Rome mint, AD 207 </p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, r. </p><p>Rev: FECVNDITAS, Terra reclining l. under tree, left arm on basket of fruits, right hand set on globe, spangled with stars; in background, four children advancing r., representing the four seasons. </p><p>Refs: RIC 549; BMCRE 21; Sear 6579</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, flans were often prepared by lathe-turning, resulting in a &quot;centration dimple,&quot; around which sometimes concentric circular scratches can still be seen. Examples of coins with such dimples abound, particularly in provincial issues from the Balkans and issues of Alexandria during the Ptolemaic period. Here&#039;s an example. Note the dimple between the two portraits on the obverse and on Asklepios&#039; right thigh on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]634797[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gordian III (AD 238-244) and Tranquillina </p><p>Roman provincial AE 26.4 mm, 12.98 g </p><p>Thrace, Anchialus, AD 241 </p><p>Obv: Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ CΕΒ-[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian and draped bust of Tranquillina, wearing stephane, confronted. </p><p>Rev: ΟVΛΠΑΝW[ΑΝ]ΧΙΑΛΕWΝ, Asklepios standing facing, head left, with serpent climbing staff to left. </p><p>Refs: Moushmov 2936; AMGN II 665; Varbanov 672; SNG Copenh --; BMC Thrace --[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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