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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 1610994, member: 18320&quot;]Since none of you have mentioned them, I&#039;ll risk commenting on two interesting features:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The appearance of the reverse strongly suggests (to me, anyway) an unusual method of &#039;striking&#039; the piece; it looks like the &#039;planchet&#039; was in a semi-plastic state, neither molten nor solid, when the pressure was applied by the dies. The granular condition of only ONE side seems more than casually odd...it&#039;s reminiscent of sintered material, and if it&#039;s an old piece that would have been a coincidental rather than desired outcome, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) The rope-molded rim and hole-borders are probably congruent, as there are the same number of coils on each side (27 outer, 8 inner). I look for, and often find, odd numbers of circumferential divisions...the fact that there are odd and even in this example leads me to believe the counts were incidental, not purposeful.</p><p><br /></p><p>A pic of the outer rim would be nice, but I&#039;m happy with what I see. A very nice piece, and thanks for showing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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