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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2078567, member: 19463&quot;]My understanding is that they were roughly the shape of the coins.&nbsp; There were Greeks much earlier that were started from round balls but Romans had prepared flans.&nbsp; I regret not having a link or reference to back this up so what I say here is only the impression I have from the years without evidence.&nbsp; Please remember that times changed and so did technology so the way flans were made for Antoninus Pius was not necessarily the way they were made for Trajan Decius.&nbsp; A technical study of mint techniques would be entirely from reverse engineering since there are no written records to the best of my knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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