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Posted 07/03/2014 09:19 am
Very pretty. But almost certainly a modern casting. The fields show evidence of having been smoothed. A thin coin is difficult to cast using the lost wax method (I have tried !). The wax copy is best sprued from the wide flat areas but leaves a large area to be smoothed which is why the field is used. In this case there might have been two entry points. The legends are more difficult to 'fix' and show all the typical signs of having been cast (ie bubbles and a soft appearance).
