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Circular holes from air bubbles from casting.944 viewsPits (holes) from corrosion are often irregular shapes and are often bunched together, pits from casting are mainly round. More pitting on one side than the other may be an indication of casting since the side that was up will contain more holes (but it isn't unusual for one side to have more pitting from corrosion too).1 commentsJoe Sermarini07/06/18 at 19:53Christian H3: helpful advice as to the potential origin of pits ...

Evidence of Casting - Bubbles on Edge1861 viewsCasting bubbles on edge.1 commentsIlya Prokopov12/28/17 at 11:49peterpil: Would be grateful if could point out difference be...

Evidence of Casting - Bubbles, Inclusions, Edge Seam and File Marks973 views1 commentsJoe Sermarini06/04/15 at 10:50Jim H: I believe I own the original coin from which this ...

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini10/12/06 at 02:26Joe Sermarini: Some genuine ancient coins show signs of filing. ...

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini05/27/06 at 06:45peterpil19: Looks sandcast. Thankfully not a dangerous fake...

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini05/09/06 at 19:24wolfgang336: The coin was condemned as cast by the large quanti...

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini05/08/06 at 12:13chrysaor: labour was cheap, very cheap

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini05/07/06 at 01:21wolfgang336: That's too much effort for a single coin. They wer...

Evidence of Casting - Edge Filing3202 viewsFew examples of edge filing will be this obvious. Often there will be just a small area of filing that the forger missed in his later finer smoothing efforts.
6 commentsJoe Sermarini05/05/06 at 20:40chrysaor: didn't the greeks and romans have metal files? Did...

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