Yep a vise job! For a "better" job you squeeze two blanks (any kind of blanks or slugs will work) together with a coin between them within two pieces of leather. Then the two blanks become soft dies and are good for one use or more; later squeezes more distorted and showing more images from later squeezes some mirror/incuse. What it must take to waist one's time making something like this so easily detected by the hobby.
That's too bad, I had high hopes for this coin, it fooled a few well educated collectors. Someone went to a lot of trouble and then put it in circulation.
what Mr. Potter described seems to be common knowledge, in fact I heard the same process being discussed today by another expert/ forum member at the coin expo. besides he has probably experimented...you need to learn about them and how to make them so you can detect them right?
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