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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2822982, member: 19463"]The numismatic world does, too. We call it overstriking. In addition to the usual 'guess the undertype' game we have examples where the flans were prepared in some manner to make them more suitable for reuse. Some were hammered flat making the undertype very rarely identifiable but leaving the flan thin and flat. Some were trimmed down to a new weight standard. Some were even cut in quarters allowing production of coins in the size needed. There is a coin owned by a few here which overstruck only the legend rings but left the central design. Most recycled coins were remelted but some students have studied trace elements so it might be possible to follow a path (like the modern British coins marked 'LIMA'). What happened to the tons of silver Augustus must have captured after Actium? </p><p><br /></p><p>What we need is a better word for the concept of recycling. 'Overstrike' has no class. Sometimes all we do is pick a language that sounds foreign to us and use their word:</p><ul> <li>Greek: ανακυκλώνω </li> <li>Italian: <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/italian-english/riciclare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/italian-english/riciclare" rel="nofollow">riciclare</a></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2822982, member: 19463"]The numismatic world does, too. We call it overstriking. In addition to the usual 'guess the undertype' game we have examples where the flans were prepared in some manner to make them more suitable for reuse. Some were hammered flat making the undertype very rarely identifiable but leaving the flan thin and flat. Some were trimmed down to a new weight standard. Some were even cut in quarters allowing production of coins in the size needed. There is a coin owned by a few here which overstruck only the legend rings but left the central design. Most recycled coins were remelted but some students have studied trace elements so it might be possible to follow a path (like the modern British coins marked 'LIMA'). What happened to the tons of silver Augustus must have captured after Actium? What we need is a better word for the concept of recycling. 'Overstrike' has no class. Sometimes all we do is pick a language that sounds foreign to us and use their word: [LIST] [*]Greek: ανακυκλώνω [*]Italian: [URL='https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/italian-english/riciclare']riciclare[/URL] [/LIST][/QUOTE]
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