[quote=ajax]Nice talk here, where all believe in a theory without any proof and when you start showing proofs they start to attack you. Indeed a great respect and knowledge.
All due respect Antonio but your theory has some holes in it as well. It has been claimed that those rings were indeed die cast. Die cast as finished rings as well (rather than strips). That is a physical impossibility unfortunately and here's why: die cast objects are cast between two steel halves of a die that meet at the widest outside point- in this case it would be roughly half way through the width of the ring. Even though the die could be injected with molten material (in this case silver) and produce the correct shape of the ring, it would be impossible to eject the ready ring from the die since there are details on it that extend above and beyond the line where the cast halves meet. For that to be possible any detail below the red line would have to be smaller (or sticking out less in layman's terms). Steel die is not a rubber mold- there's no give on it to allow something to squeeze past it or bending it.
In short, your theory of those rings not being die struck also eliminates your theory about them being cast as rings.
