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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 3320034, member: 77704&quot;]Milled coins have many problems too. Adjustment marks are a real pain in the neck, with 1700-1840 coins, esp. French issues. Then bad dies/ Swiss Cantons had a lot of coins with weakness in center design. Then many where struck from cracked/ worn dies<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hammered coinage hit its lowest point under the Byzantines from 1200-1454 when the Ottomans put them out of their misery. After the fall of Rome to the Germans in 410AD, it would take the conquerors another 800 years to duplicate the fine art of coining. This one I have from 1254AD is well done. The 1654 coin from Basel is from Spink Auction, where it was listed as FDC, however center has weakness. All known 1654 ex (7) have same trait. Yet the 1720 Quarter Dukat I have is flawless, supberb strike.[ATTACH=full]880228[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]880230[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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