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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946907, member: 19463"]Many striking teams worked for many years and had to develop a technique for making this work. Some did better than others. Some dies were more cupped than others. It surprises me that thy never figured out that making the dies more consistent or even selecting dies that matched would make striking easier. Perhaps they did and used the better blank dies for old and oddball ones for AE. </p><p><br /></p><p>Quant. Geek's Alexius III is a lovely coin showing what can happen if the deep curve matched well enough not to require the double strike trick. My coin below shows doubling on St. Constantine (reverse right). Note the twin globi cruciferes and nimbi. More noteworthy is the way the curve presents us with St. Constantine as a 3/4 left facing figure in this photo. This coin has a lot of extra material outside the design and has been flattened a bit (at mint or post mint?) on the right side. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]718940[/ATTACH] </p><p>My experience storing these things has been good using normal envelopes BUT you simply must not try to cram extra coins in a box or shove them in one of those 20 slot plastic pages made for thin coins and 35mm color slide photos (if you are old enough to know what slides are). Doing so will break coins. I have even seen coins flattened completely in a vise which makes them fit stapled 2x2's and adds a lot of flan cracks. If you have delicate coins, there are little tubs made for storing rock collections and extra deep trays made by many of the standard coin tray makers which also work for some of our archaic silver and aes grave lumps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2946907, member: 19463"]Many striking teams worked for many years and had to develop a technique for making this work. Some did better than others. Some dies were more cupped than others. It surprises me that thy never figured out that making the dies more consistent or even selecting dies that matched would make striking easier. Perhaps they did and used the better blank dies for old and oddball ones for AE. Quant. Geek's Alexius III is a lovely coin showing what can happen if the deep curve matched well enough not to require the double strike trick. My coin below shows doubling on St. Constantine (reverse right). Note the twin globi cruciferes and nimbi. More noteworthy is the way the curve presents us with St. Constantine as a 3/4 left facing figure in this photo. This coin has a lot of extra material outside the design and has been flattened a bit (at mint or post mint?) on the right side. [ATTACH=full]718940[/ATTACH] My experience storing these things has been good using normal envelopes BUT you simply must not try to cram extra coins in a box or shove them in one of those 20 slot plastic pages made for thin coins and 35mm color slide photos (if you are old enough to know what slides are). Doing so will break coins. I have even seen coins flattened completely in a vise which makes them fit stapled 2x2's and adds a lot of flan cracks. If you have delicate coins, there are little tubs made for storing rock collections and extra deep trays made by many of the standard coin tray makers which also work for some of our archaic silver and aes grave lumps.[/QUOTE]
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