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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3008128, member: 74282&quot;]Some other possible signs of transfer dies include stuttering of the devices near the edges(an artifact of pressing at high pressure versus striking) and occasionally these transfer die forgeries will have remnants of the undertype left around when they&#039;re pressed or struck on ancient flans. Some can be detected by simply considering whether or not it&#039;s possible for the type to be overstruck on a given undertype(i.e. undertype is newer than the type overstruck on it). Additionally, if the host coin used to make a transfer die was, itself, overstruck, it can transfer details of the undertype into the die. The orientation and appearance of an undertype on an overstruck coin relative to the new type should be as unique as the flan shape, strike and other characteristics that make all handmade coins unique and I am unaware of any known cases where an overstruck type somehow transferred its devices to a die, so one way to guard against such fakes when buying overstruck coins is by looking for other overstrikes for cases like this where the transfer die picked up the undertype.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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