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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3474970, member: 99642&quot;]As I&#039;m no expert, please take this with the proverbial grain of salt, but the way these were made was to put a thick slug or flan of metal on an anvil die and then slam it with a die embedded in the hammer. The shape would always be irregular and most times split. How much of the die design ended up on the coin, and how thick the coin ended up being, depended a lot on how strong the guy swinging the hammer was and how hard he hit the flan, (and also how good his aim was).</p><p>As for clipping, that was done mostly to silver and gold coins, which is why reeding the edges of coins was started.</p><p>Considering the value of copper and bronze, even back then, there wasn&#039;t much reason to clip copper or bronze coins.</p><p>However, silver and gold coins were not only clipped, but they were also shaved.</p><p>It didn&#039;t take that much gold shavings to make the effort worthwhile.</p><p>Yes, correcting the weight was another reason they were clipped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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