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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3239093, member: 56859&quot;]Interesting!&nbsp; I have a small amount of experience striking coins and found that if I overheated the flans (heated to red hot), they cracked into jagged bits like this coin.&nbsp; Perhaps the flan for this Lucilla denarius was overheated prior to striking.&nbsp; Maybe it has looked like this its whole life, at least to some extent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example of fantasy struck on a too-hot flan:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/sng-tiffily-5-jpg.446918/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><b>TIFFILY, Tiphonia</b></p><p><b>c. 5th century BCE</b></p><p>AR 16, 7.5 gm</p><p>Obv: Forepart of winged iguana left</p><p>Rev: Monogram within dotted square, incuse</p><p>Ref: SNG Tiffily 5</p><p><i>Most of the coins, including this one, are of terrible workmanship. One would think that these mint workers had no idea what they were doing. Clearly there was no quality control.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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