Why were ancient minters so bad at making round coins with the pattern in the middle?

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Old technology makes perfection on mass produced things hard

To make the coins they had a really big hammer with the seal on it; then they smashed the hammer into the coin leaving the correct imprint

I don’t know about you; but I can’t hit the nailhead at full force 100/100 times

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