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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 937106, member: 66&quot;]The latest picture seems to show the reeding as being sharp and not flattened.&nbsp; That would eliminate a beaten edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>A to when the reeding is applied, since 1794 the reeding has always been created by the collar during striking. (Surprise the early reeded edges were NOT applied by the Castaining machine.)&nbsp; This causes a problem because the smaller diameter means that if the planchet was smaller in diameter it could not have created the reeding during the strike. (Striking it in a smaller diameter collar is not an option because the dies would not have fit inside the collar.&nbsp; So they would smash into the collar rather than the planchet.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned earlier a way to do it would be to strike the coin on an already struck smaller reeded edge coin.&nbsp; Such as on an already struck foreign coin.&nbsp; A problem I see with this idea is that it appears to made of the same coppernickel clad composition as our coins are.&nbsp; The only country I can think of off the top of my head that was doing that back then was Panama, and we were striking their coins, but they were the same size and weight as our coins.&nbsp; Dutchman, when you get the coin give it a good examination and see if you can find any trace of an undertype.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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