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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1208420, member: 12789&quot;]I have an AE 48 from Ptolemy II that I believe was one of my first ancient purchases years ago.&nbsp; It is a big heavy clunker of a piece, and an interesting story on how they were minted.&nbsp; The flans were cast, then struck with dies while still hot.&nbsp; The planed edges and the dots in the centre were a result of the coin then being put into a planing machine with the edges ground off to make a uniform weight.&nbsp; So they went through a fairly thorough minting process for the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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