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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2697808, member: 19463&quot;]The machine process started with Ptolemaic bronzes and are well explained in an extensive essay:</p><p><a href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans3.html</a></p><p>I linked to page three where he gets to the Provincials but you really should back up and read the whole thing:</p><p><a href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html</a></p><p>This site covers the &#039;how&#039; quite well but leaves us with the &#039;why???&#039;.&nbsp; We modern collectors have trouble believing that they would put such good work in the dies for these coins only to strike them on flans with those ugly marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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