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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 5385941, member: 21705&quot;]It&#039;s interesting that I&#039;ve been watching &quot;Forged In Fire&quot; on the history channel. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been thinking about the process used to produce these counterstamps. A blacksmith could create a die, inscribe the die, then harden it to produce an incused die stamp. A Standard Stamp would probably involve an extra step with a hardened incused die being used to produce a Standard die since that would be much easier than removing material around the image, though either could be done.</p><p><br /></p><p>One problem in looking at these stamps is that they are often not aligned with the coin&#039;s surface or have a solid support leaving part of the image weak.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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