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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2714121, member: 112"]I thought so too, but back when this came up a whole lot of other people didn't. So I had the guy who owned the coin send it me. Which is how I took that pic. Then I played. (more on that later, probably tomorrow)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now in the meantime the question came up about how deep the impurities, the dark streaks in a woodie, a real one, might be into the coin, or were they just on the surface of the coin ? That question posed more questions. Some of which are answered by the coin pics you posted. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, some of those pics show the randomness at which the streaks can occur while others show the uniformity. And the bends and arcs show what happens when the strip was rolled out, how the impurities were pulled this way and that way as the metal stretched - but only sometimes. The thing I find most interesting is the uniformity of the depth of the streaks. I was surprised by that for I would have expected much more randomness with some streaks being deeper than others, some much deeper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2714121, member: 112"]I thought so too, but back when this came up a whole lot of other people didn't. So I had the guy who owned the coin send it me. Which is how I took that pic. Then I played. (more on that later, probably tomorrow) Now in the meantime the question came up about how deep the impurities, the dark streaks in a woodie, a real one, might be into the coin, or were they just on the surface of the coin ? That question posed more questions. Some of which are answered by the coin pics you posted. For example, some of those pics show the randomness at which the streaks can occur while others show the uniformity. And the bends and arcs show what happens when the strip was rolled out, how the impurities were pulled this way and that way as the metal stretched - but only sometimes. The thing I find most interesting is the uniformity of the depth of the streaks. I was surprised by that for I would have expected much more randomness with some streaks being deeper than others, some much deeper.[/QUOTE]
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