Flowline Expert Needed: Please

dlimb2

Ok I am sure you know what I am trying to do by now...so here is my question....you have a minted clad dime...you want to make it look like a 11 cent piece...you place One Cent and dime face to face....now you strike the coin and it is imprented with the ONE CEN...now where it has just imprented the dime...would these new indentions alter the flow lines...Thank You.

relayer

yes

dlimb2

relayer, would they be altered on both coins...Thank You.

dlimb2

I guess what I am trying to say...is that the flow lines on the newly imprented 11 cent piece would not have any flow lines in the new indentions...am I correct?

dlimb2

Now if this 11 cent piece was real the flow lines would continue from the field into the indentions, am I correct?

dlimb2

Let me tell you there is more than one way to skin a cat! You do not have to replicate something to find out if it is real or not...if you look close enough the evidence is right before you.

Dog97

If your trying to determine the authenticity of a 11¢ coin flowlines have nothing to do with it.

<<<you place One Cent and dime face to face....now you strike the coin and it is imprented with the ONE CEN...>>>
That would create a mirror image or brockage. 11¢ coins aren't struck from other coins.They are struck from the actual dies so the ONE CENT is not a mirror imaged.

coppercoins

<< <i>Let me tell you there is more than one way to skin a cat! You do not have to replicate something to find out if it is real or not...if you look close enough the evidence is right before you. >>



Exactly - which is why incuse backward letters that affect the higher relief originally minted on the coin should lead to only one conclusion....two coins and a hammer. Double denomination coins are struck with dies from both denominations (hence their well applied name), thus have normal coin relief for both designs. Done deal.

Relayer is right in that either a double struck coin or a hammer job would affect the flow lines originally struck into the coin if the pressure was hard enough to obliterate them. No conclusion could be drawn either way.

Dog is right in saying that the flow lines have nothing to do with determining authenticity of a double denomination coin. Why? Because it's next to impossible to fake the real thing, and impossible for a hammer job coin to have been made at the mint. They are mutually exclusive, so flow lines have nothing to do with the subject.