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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4558191, member: 110350"]Thanks! Is "planchet center point" the technical name for what I called the compass point, or is it just another term for it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, I've been reading Butcher's 1988 book about Roman Provincial Coins -- which was published right before things opened up behind the old Iron Curtain and coins started flooding in from Eastern and Southeastern Europe -- and he suggests that these "dimples" were especially common on coins from Moesia Inferior. I wonder if that's really true, or if the fact that there were so many coins with confronted heads issued there that they left room for those dimples to remain visible between those heads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4558191, member: 110350"]Thanks! Is "planchet center point" the technical name for what I called the compass point, or is it just another term for it? Interestingly, I've been reading Butcher's 1988 book about Roman Provincial Coins -- which was published right before things opened up behind the old Iron Curtain and coins started flooding in from Eastern and Southeastern Europe -- and he suggests that these "dimples" were especially common on coins from Moesia Inferior. I wonder if that's really true, or if the fact that there were so many coins with confronted heads issued there that they left room for those dimples to remain visible between those heads.[/QUOTE]
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