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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2913377, member: 40017&quot;]I cannot claim to be a specialist on the Irish coins, but I do have a good Coincraft book on the topic.</p><p>Firstly to say that being an Evasion would probably increase it&#039;s value as these are widely collected, particularly in the US.</p><p>Having said that it could be genuine. My book gives a weight range of 8.1 to 9.0g, which with the wear showing is probably still in range. Evasions tended to be lighter to save on copper. The die faults do not look too drastic - many of the Evasions were much more obvious, sometimes even varying fundamentally from the design. The Regal issue was done under contract - so presumably not at the Royal Mint, and so prone to more faults than usual?</p><p>Let&#039;s see what anyone else has to say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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