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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4981348, member: 19463&quot;]If you swing a sledgehammer all day and you probably don&#039;t need a gym membership.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is not my image but I have seen in on more than one site.&nbsp; I do not know who made it.&nbsp; I believe I recall that die was found in France.&nbsp; Very few genuine dies exist.</p><p><a href="http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/?p=665" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/?p=665" rel="nofollow">http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/?p=665</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The new photo tells a lot more.&nbsp; It even shows the tendency of brockage incuses to be spread larger than the original die.&nbsp; When something is squished with a sledgehammer, it gets bigger.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am on the lookout for a coin that I believe was stuck in the reverse die and created a brockage.&nbsp; I would expect it to be broadly spread but flattened or unsharp on the obverse but strong on the reverse.&nbsp; My best candidate so far is the Septimius Severus below but separating a brockage-mother from a worn die might be hard.&nbsp;&nbsp; I very well may be the only collector in the world who cares about this question but that is OK.&nbsp; There are enough unanswered questions that we each can pick the ones we prefer. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1196758[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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