Posted 07/23/2009 11:53 pm
You mean to tell when it was actually deformed? Depending on the type of coin and the amount of cupping sometimes there are sort of stretchmarks that can happen.
These stretchmarkes will be fresh and bright until they retone to the rest of the coin. Depending on the content of the coin is how these marks show. Even that is reaching a bit.
unfortunatley that is really little to go on so most are just shot from the hip and called good enough.
Any wear patterns worn into it by any chance?
You can look at the way it was made too for HOW it was made. What torch or kind of brazing can at least SOMETIMES tell you an era.
These stretchmarkes will be fresh and bright until they retone to the rest of the coin. Depending on the content of the coin is how these marks show. Even that is reaching a bit.
unfortunatley that is really little to go on so most are just shot from the hip and called good enough.
Any wear patterns worn into it by any chance?
You can look at the way it was made too for HOW it was made. What torch or kind of brazing can at least SOMETIMES tell you an era.
