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Offline VonDrobac

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barbaric flans ?
« on: May 21, 2013, 04:19:01 pm »
hi all

to me this seems like barbaric flans, they are flat but cant say for sure which metal is until i clean it better, on some parts look like silver...Flans are around 20 mm. Is this usual way of making flans ?

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Re: barbaric flans ?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2013, 04:34:21 am »
Hi VonDrobac

Wow, i´ve heard about this "cast-method",  but i´ve never seen that.

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they are flat but cant say for sure which metal is until i clean it better, on some parts look like silver

The silver tint is coming about of a mixture between bronze and lead. It´s a special feature of local
barbaric imitations.

The other and mostly method to stamp barbarians, as you know for sure, are the casted rods with cutted flans,
hammered and marked.

For example the other method:

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Re: barbaric flans ?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2013, 08:33:26 pm »
Thank you for respond and showing  better pictures   :)

I did not know for that mixture with lead, interesting!

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