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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pravda, post: 3089980, member: 95622&quot;]Inumis piece has still patina so there the dots which do not look like casting pimples can be explained with the patina. Patina is not necessarily everywhere uniform thick (patina can grow different depending on environment) and there can be impurities (dirt) in patina. There can be die flaws (die damaged, some metal broke out), which can look pretty round and the roughness can be removed with time due to die erosion from metal flow. So at the inumis piece it can be explained due to die flaw under patina or with patina. The cast fake is stripped so it can not be explained with patina and die flaw is not possible because die flaws can be round but surface does not look like melted metal. Real casting pimples are round and are melted metal and this is how they look like!&nbsp; The planchets of ancient coins were casted so the metal of planchet has at the beginning a surface like cast fakes but now comes the point, the pressure from striking will result in metal flow which will give the surface a luster and so the surface of the minted coin is pretty much different from the surface the planchet had used to mint the coin. If they would have been impurities on the surface of the coin, they should have been affected to the metal flow of striking and they should not look like melted metal anymore. Of course impurites can be in the alloy of the planchet ( the alloy is not everywhere completely homogenous) but since when do they look exactly the same as casting pimples? There is an identical scratch on throat on obverse on mother and cast fake (yellow arrow) it must be a cast fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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