Posted 11/16/2025 01:57 am
The positioning makes me think the damage was done with tin snips or some such similar tool, rather than two separate blows with a chisel as might normally be done for a test cut. Perhaps the coin was being treated as scrap silver and chopped up to "make change".
It's a coin where knowing the provenance would assist in guessing at the reason or cause of the damage. If it were found outside the borders of the Republic, for example, then the best explanation might be some barbarian treating the coin as a piece of hack silver.
It's a coin where knowing the provenance would assist in guessing at the reason or cause of the damage. If it were found outside the borders of the Republic, for example, then the best explanation might be some barbarian treating the coin as a piece of hack silver.
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