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[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 22 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'm confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was not copper. Look at the spacing on the text around the word.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite. I'm going to pretend I was making a bad LotR joke.

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