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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 809440, member: 19463&quot;]The pressure of striking will cause metals to bond forming a region of alloy between them that will hold them together.&nbsp; It is possible that the flans were heated before striking which would make this even more efficient but we don&#039;t know all these specifics.&nbsp; Aksum issued several different gold enhanced designs including some with a thin gold leaf over a larger area and some with a small lump in the middle of the cross.&nbsp; I am not aware of any study addressing these questions and the coins are not common enough for many to be sacrificed to testing.&nbsp; For such ugly little coins, they are quite popular.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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