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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4614317, member: 96864"]The scar is not the main thing I was looking at, could be a planchet flaw from this side of the computer for all I know and the scar alone would not have made the coin uniformly cupped. It's all the punctates that look like nail-punch divots that are of the most interest and which are most certainly intentional, along with the shallow scratching. These would increase surface/binding area for mounting and also get the cupped shape I imagine it has but is not shown well in the pictures. The scar line alone is not really indicative of much that I can tell. To elaborate, I too have dabbled in lapidary/silverworking and barring soldering, I'd likely have to do something very similar to get a good mount if you didn't want a big distracting bezel wrapped around and up over the edge of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: It just occurred to me that the coin was probably indeed scarred long ago, making it basically a cheap cull example 100+ years ago and a great candidate for damaging further and turning into jewelry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4614317, member: 96864"]The scar is not the main thing I was looking at, could be a planchet flaw from this side of the computer for all I know and the scar alone would not have made the coin uniformly cupped. It's all the punctates that look like nail-punch divots that are of the most interest and which are most certainly intentional, along with the shallow scratching. These would increase surface/binding area for mounting and also get the cupped shape I imagine it has but is not shown well in the pictures. The scar line alone is not really indicative of much that I can tell. To elaborate, I too have dabbled in lapidary/silverworking and barring soldering, I'd likely have to do something very similar to get a good mount if you didn't want a big distracting bezel wrapped around and up over the edge of the coin. EDIT: It just occurred to me that the coin was probably indeed scarred long ago, making it basically a cheap cull example 100+ years ago and a great candidate for damaging further and turning into jewelry.[/QUOTE]
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