How to tell at once that it's a vise job:
- The coin is now definitely no longer fully circular; such distortion cannot happen when being struck and still retain the milled edge, as the collar die cannot deform out of circularity.
- The edge milling is bent and twisted. Much the same reasoning; the collar die cannot bend and twist like this.
- On the opposite side of the coin, at the point opposite the indentation, the design has been flattened. This is as a result of some kind of post-strike secondary impact (i.e.
PMD) striking or squeezing the coin against something else.
- It has clearly been squeezed into another finished coin, with a sharp rim. In other words, both this coin and the coin-that-did-the-squeezing were already-finished coins. THis also points to a secondary, post-striking event.
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