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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2324586, member: 19463&quot;]Sallent&#039;s coin reminds me of when I got my first Istros years ago.&nbsp; The way they cast the blanks for these seems to result in a ridge on the edge when the coin was struck.&nbsp; This shows clearly on Sallent&#039;s coin and on mine. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]470438[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is NOT a sign of a fake coin.&nbsp; It is a remnant of the way the flans were cast that caused a folding and s part of what we expect from these.&nbsp; I corresponded with a major dealer years ago on this and learned quite a bit in the process perhaps leading me to my interest in technical matters related to coins more than catalog numbers and history.&nbsp; Certainly not all of these will show this feature since it depends on the way things aligned and the force of the strike but don&#039;t give a seller a hard time about this based on a fear of edge seams.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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