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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 313417, member: 4703&quot;]Here&#039;s a lightened version showing the detail, which appears to be one half of a mould for four coins with two obverse and two reverse sides showing.</p><p><br /></p><p>My problem with its authenticity is that it is not consistent with the basic method used for casting cash coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following quotation from Jacobs &amp; Vermuele, <i>Japanese Coinage</i> 2d Ed. (1972), p. 40, describes the process:At this stage the utility of the square holes comes into play as the coins are stacked on a square bar and the edges are filed to remove the stubs of the branches.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.cointalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=23830&amp;stc=1&amp;d=1199204219" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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