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<p>[QUOTE="Numismat, post: 1331619, member: 15019"]Not necessarily, it depends on the nature of what is being struck into the coin. I haven't seen many of such errors, but I have noticed that sometimes the retained strike looks like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>Forgive the crude illustration please. I was using MS Paint.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/321.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The red area represents the struck in piece. Sometimes, if it's malleable enough, part of it flares out over the indent that the bulk of the fragment makes and gets struck in as a flat "plating" on the surface. This may well be the case on the OP's coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do concede that most times there is a faint border around struck in pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numismat, post: 1331619, member: 15019"]Not necessarily, it depends on the nature of what is being struck into the coin. I haven't seen many of such errors, but I have noticed that sometimes the retained strike looks like this: Forgive the crude illustration please. I was using MS Paint. [IMG]http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/Numismat/321.jpg[/IMG] The red area represents the struck in piece. Sometimes, if it's malleable enough, part of it flares out over the indent that the bulk of the fragment makes and gets struck in as a flat "plating" on the surface. This may well be the case on the OP's coin. But I do concede that most times there is a faint border around struck in pieces.[/QUOTE]
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