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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3173113, member: 97383&quot;]britannia40, collectors have been scratching their heads on those indentation marks for many years. Marvin Tameanko gave a logical explanation in <i>The Celator</i> magazine, December 1992 edition. He stated that those marks were made by <u>pincer tongs</u> to test the hardness of heated planchets before striking. If the planchets didn&#039;t yield marks from the pincer tongs they were reheated to make them softer, allowing the dies to make a good impression. You generally only see these marks on bronze Roman provincial coins &amp; heavy Greco-Roman coins from Egypt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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