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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1285322, member: 19463&quot;]We are looking at different coins.&nbsp; Show me a soft spot on a base metal coin that is not doublestruck.&nbsp; That could happen if the space between the dies was greater in the center than on the edge but the ones I have noted make it look like the weakness is from the strikes erasing each other rather than being flattened by a separate curving step.&nbsp; I agree that the mint would favor the simple answer and doublestriking seems simpler than adding a separate curving process.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I really would like to know what the Italian text linked above says that the author says is in disagreement with Bendell.&nbsp; Does he mention a separate step?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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