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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3409134, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s obvious that most such coins in antiquity were <i>broken</i> in half, not cut, because the edges aren&#039;t straight.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest is pure conjecture, based upon an experiment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author tried various ways to reproduce the effect with modern coins, trying various chisels and such and those didn&#039;t work. The author ended up putting it in a vice, wrapped in leather to get a good grip on it and to keep the upper part from flying across the floor, and whacking it with a hammer. That was the only way he could reproduce the effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, I have about 12 years of Celator back issues and though the magazine is <a href="https://community.vcoins.com/author/thecelator/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/author/thecelator/" rel="nofollow">archived online</a>, it&#039;s not easily searchable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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