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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbreeze, post: 18658227, member: 86726&quot;][USER=114733]@bernard55[/USER]</p><p>[USER=73995]@Pickin and Grinin[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is cast, as were all Chinese cash.&nbsp; The scrapes on the rim are the file marks where the coin maker smooths the section where the coin is cut from the sprue.&nbsp; I’m not 100% sure about the “filing/smoothing” on the characters.&nbsp; </p><p>It is usually never that obvious, although I have seen it before.&nbsp; That is a good question because it is one of the odd things about this piece.&nbsp; At that point and near that point on the rim, you can see some spots where the metal did not fill the mold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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