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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2338665, member: 26302&quot;]A punch is a die technically, so the first coin was struck. Just not as much care was taken in flan preparation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Btw, there is a lot of confusion about the first coins. People say they were struck in naturally occurring electrum. While its true there are naturally occurring electrum nuggets in Lydia, they had variable percentages of gold and silver. The first thing the mint did, from the very beginning, was to separate the silver and gold into separate metals and then recombine them in the lowest acceptable percentage of gold content. From the very beginning, governments have misled and cheated the people it would seem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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