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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rlm&#039;s cents, post: 607245, member: 7957&quot;]I am familiar with the process.&nbsp; Not that I am an expert (far from it), but the methods I am aware of would not produce such smooth surfaces and, not that I have looked for it before, there is that luster.&nbsp; I would be extremely surprised if any knurling tool I have seen would produce any luster.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also, it takes a lot of force to put that dent in the metal.&nbsp; You have to rigidly hold that coin.&nbsp; I am not sure what to use today to hold the coin without marking it and this was done in the 1800&#039;s, or at least seem to have been done then.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, I know of no more likely method of doing it shy of minting the whole coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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