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Velvet striking is the result of corner wear. It can also be deliberately produced by sandblasting. After a hundred or so hits, a wedge will develop micro-roundness on its surface. When a wedge strikes, it deposits tiny asperities on the blank. These give the coin's surface a satin finish. The appearance of a new or almost new coin, whose original surface has been preserved, is therefore infinitely varied, since it may have been struck at any time during the wear of the coin and its successive pollissages.

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