Posted 12/26/2021 8:47 pm
@bill, I'm with the frog in that I'm not seeing much doubling at all in your pics. With that said, it seems to be the case that the periphery of the dies ages the fast and therefore we tend to see evidence of tired dies on the inscriptions nearest the rim. This is also where we see Ridge Ring and flow lines from the dies. Perhaps this is the case because the periphery of the die by definition isn't surrounded by metal to help support it--in other words the stresses during striking are highest there.
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-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
