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<p>[QUOTE="foundinrolls, post: 240192, member: 4350"]The blobs to the right of the building are the effects of being hammered. The reverse side of this coin will be damaged by whatever the surface it was laying on was when the two stacked coins were hit with the hammer.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When you lay one coin on top of another and whack it with a hammer, the top coin bends if it is not hit dead center by the hammer blow. Where the hammer hits with the most force, the letters transfered in reverse from the reverse of the top coin will be stronger. In this case the CEN of Cent. The top coin raises away from the surface of the bottom coin around what is the T just above the date. That is why the damage stops at the numeral 2. Since the edge of the top coin is a little more involved when the hammer comes down on it, you can see the mark left by the edge coming down and around to a spot a little below the 2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="foundinrolls, post: 240192, member: 4350"]The blobs to the right of the building are the effects of being hammered. The reverse side of this coin will be damaged by whatever the surface it was laying on was when the two stacked coins were hit with the hammer. When you lay one coin on top of another and whack it with a hammer, the top coin bends if it is not hit dead center by the hammer blow. Where the hammer hits with the most force, the letters transfered in reverse from the reverse of the top coin will be stronger. In this case the CEN of Cent. The top coin raises away from the surface of the bottom coin around what is the T just above the date. That is why the damage stops at the numeral 2. Since the edge of the top coin is a little more involved when the hammer comes down on it, you can see the mark left by the edge coming down and around to a spot a little below the 2.[/QUOTE]
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