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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3694196, member: 56859&quot;]Very interesting, RC!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what to think though.&nbsp; The wedge on your Faustina II doesn&#039;t look like a split from flan striking.&nbsp; Fox&#039;s theory is interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if it has something to do with how those flans were prepared.&nbsp; For coins exhibiting this type of purposeful-appearing wedge, were the flans first struck with plain hammers to rough them into shape?&nbsp; Just thinking out loud here, but perhaps if during such pre-forming a flan crack appeared, the mint worker then used a wedge-cutter over it, taking a bigger bite, diminishing the stress point so that the flan wouldn&#039;t crack further when struck again with the coin dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah.&nbsp; Gonna go with that:&nbsp; a purposeful wedge cut after the pre-forming of the flan as a salvage technique to prevent flan splits from becoming worse when the flan was struck with dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously the mint workers in Tiffily didn&#039;t know this trick:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/sng-tiffily-5-jpg.446918/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><b>TIFFILY, Tiphonia</b></p><p><b>c. 5th century BCE</b></p><p>AR 16, 7.5 gm</p><p>Obv: Forepart of winged iguana left</p><p>Rev: Monogram within dotted square, incuse</p><p>Ref: SNG Tiffily 5</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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