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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1786153, member: 42773&quot;]There were basically three types of casting trees...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s16.postimg.org/rn6ign9np/flansimage002.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sometimes you find coins with sprues on both sides of the flan, whose flans would have been cast in a daisy-chained tree like A. But when overflow runners were used in trees B and C, like this...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s15.postimg.org/z69vdynsb/flansimage003.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>...you sometimes find coins where the overflow runner was not removed. That&#039;s what scottishmoney&#039;s coins look like to me. I prefer not to call those sprues, but it&#039;s a minor distinction, to be sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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