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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1083838, member: 112&quot;]As I told you when I viewed the coin in person, I couldn&#039;t really see any signs of tooling. That doesn&#039;t mean there aren&#039;t any though because as I also said I have very limited experience with these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>What did surprise me though and what I do have experience with were the surfaces of this coin. I was downright impressed with them. These pics do not do this coin justice IMO for the surfaces are much nicer than these pics show. The corrosion and pitting commonly found on early copper just wasn&#039;t there. As I recall my comment at the time was that in regard to planchet quality it just doesn&#039;t get any better than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>But back to the tooling issue. I can remember thinking to myself when you asked me about it that what you were seeing might have been due to the coin being struck twice. But I discounted the idea partly because of my inexperience with the coin and partly because, given the minting process at the time, I thought a double strike unlikely.</p><p><br /></p><p>But given Marshall&#039;s experience with early copper and his thinking about the coin being double struck, then perhaps that is exactly what it was. Because honestly I could not see any signs of tooling or tool marks. For whatever that is worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still think your best bet (or the owner&#039;s) is to get the coin slabbed and go from there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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