Cast blanks - Coin blanks that are molded, rather than cut from strips of metal.
Cast Coins - Coins which are made not in the usual manner of striking with dies, but by pouring molten metal into a mold.
cast blanks Planchets made by a mold method, rather than being cut from strips of metal.
As an economy measure the contractors did not produce blank planchets in the normal manner, rather they simply melted the copper ore then poured it into moulds producing cast blanks.
A few ancients were cast rather than struck from dies and often show remnants of the sprue where metal entered the die. These can also appear on struck coins made on cast blanks.
VG
Double Struck
Constantius II
Antioch mint?
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 See also: Obverse, Strike, Cast, Coin, Slight
  
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