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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3056043, member: 19463"]The coin did not circulate for 800 year but probably was found after being lost for 800 years and used as a blank because it was the right size/weight. Perhaps they found a bag of a thousand of them and restruck them all; perhaps it was the only one. Today machine mints can't use old coins as blanks but restriking old coins was standard procedure when this was done. Many Byzantine bronzes are hard to find NOT restruck on an earlier coin but usually the undertype is only a few years old. The worker that did it quite possibly had no idea he was doing anything out of the ordinary. A blank was a blank and just another part of the job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3056043, member: 19463"]The coin did not circulate for 800 year but probably was found after being lost for 800 years and used as a blank because it was the right size/weight. Perhaps they found a bag of a thousand of them and restruck them all; perhaps it was the only one. Today machine mints can't use old coins as blanks but restriking old coins was standard procedure when this was done. Many Byzantine bronzes are hard to find NOT restruck on an earlier coin but usually the undertype is only a few years old. The worker that did it quite possibly had no idea he was doing anything out of the ordinary. A blank was a blank and just another part of the job.[/QUOTE]
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