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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2785029, member: 19463&quot;]I did not see this thread until my thoughts had been quoted from my page.&nbsp; I had heard of the Tameanko&#039;s tong theory but always considered it ridiculous.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two basic types of these dimples.&nbsp; I believe they were both made by the same tool.&nbsp; On the first below, the pins that held the coin held fast in the coin but rotated in the tool mount.&nbsp; The dimples are irregular.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645283[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other type, the pin held fast in the tool and rotated inside the coin making a dimple that was round and often striated.&nbsp; It is not necessary that every coin would show the same tpe dimple on both sides since we have to allow for things like how hard they pressed or even if both sides were trimmed by the same tool.&nbsp; Certainly not all had to be done exactly the same way.&nbsp; Coins like this were made for 500 years.&nbsp; Technology advances.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]645284[/ATTACH] </p><p>I had close ups of these pits on my webpage pit page that RC quoted. Thanks to him for reading that page.&nbsp; The matter is well treated on the Ptolemy page from which I lifted this image.&nbsp; The question is whether pin R rotated freely in the mount above it or stuck so it rotated in the coin below.</p><p><img src="http://www.classicalcoins.com/media/Research/flansimage018.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans7.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans7.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans7.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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