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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2718740, member: 56859&quot;]Here&#039;s my theory <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><ul> <li>The mint work was salvaging two (or more?) too-thin flans, working them together into one flan</li> <li>The flan sandwich was heated and the obverse layer nearly molten when it was struck but the underlying layer wasn&#039;t adequately hot</li> <li>The die was markedly cooler than the flan</li> <li>In the first milliseconds of impact, metal from the obverse layer flowed into the obverse die</li> <li>In the next milliseconds, the outer flan metal cooled, became embrittled, and as it &quot;stretched&quot; it cracked and separated at those weak spots.&nbsp; It also failed to completely fill the obverse die.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>Maybe??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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