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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2056433, member: 42773&quot;]To me, the answer to the &quot;mystery&quot; of incuse designs is blatantly obvious: metal flow. The anvil die had incuse devices that needed to be filled with metal, so the hammer die was engraved in relief to push the metal into the lower die. Perhaps the minters of these coins had a problem with low striking pressure (for whatever reason), and that was one of the solutions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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