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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2997125, member: 56859&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;ve had coins with horizontal cleavage cracks but nothing quite like this.&nbsp; That&#039;s rather interesting, although it looks like BD deep in the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect this is just the result of a problem during flan making.&nbsp; Perhaps when the molds were being poured, this flan&#039;s depression didn&#039;t fully fill and after the first &quot;pour&quot; had already cooled a bit, more molten metal was added.&nbsp; That would give rise to a weakly joined flan, which after being subjected to whacking with a hammer, plus time in the ground, might look like this.&nbsp; Or at least that&#039;s my theory <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For 99 cents (even if shipping was several bucks) I think it is a wonderful &quot;fascinoma&quot;.&nbsp; Probably should give it a soak in sodium sesquicarbonate though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add that I think it&#039;s an Isis/eagle type of Ptolemaic bronze, perhaps Svoronos 1234.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be of modern manufacture?&nbsp; Seems unlikely.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it is two coins fused together either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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