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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2338556, member: 74222&quot;]“Struck” means you have soft hot flan, and then you struck it with a diet and a hammer. “Cast” means you have a cast where you fill it with liquid bronze, and then you break the cast in order to get the coin out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have I understood the two terms correct? I assume I have. So it leads me to other questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I thought that all genuine coins are struck. I was mistaken. Some Byzantine Cherson coins are indeed casted. So why were some coins struck while others were casted? </p><p><br /></p><p>2) Is it obvious that my Cherson minted coin is a cast?, I mean can you see it with your naked eye although I assume it is?:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]474911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The “W” and “P” on it. On the reserve side the surface is completely smooth which make me thinking there were nothing on the reverse side. About 2,2 cm. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>”Struck or Cast ?</b>Coins from Cherson from the 5th century through Constans II (641-668) were struck. Their fabric, if not their designs, resembles normal Byzantine coin fabric. After a long gap in production, coinage apparently resumed at Cherson in the late 8th century with crude<a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/#cast" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/#cast" rel="nofollow">cast</a>(not stuck) coins imitating earlier types. Coinage attributable to a particular emperor resumed with<a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/#theophilus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/#theophilus" rel="nofollow">Theophilus</a>(829-842) and from then on most types were cast. The fabric of the cast coins of Cherson is distinct and unlike that of other contemporary series of coins.”</p><p><br /></p><p>From: <a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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