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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 350313, member: 66&quot;]The edge lettering was applied BEFORE striking, not afterward.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Bowers and Merena coin and the Coinfacts B-14 both show both spikes on stars 4 and 5, they just aren&#039;t easy to see.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have my copy of Bolander or Reiver on hand but I would bet those spikes are diagnostic for the die and appear on all specimens of that variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>What condemns it more for me are the identical heavy contact marks on both your coin and the replica piece on eBay.&nbsp; Specifically the two at the junction of the jaw and neck, the one in the center of the neck and the one just about in the center of the right obv field. (centered between the chin and star 11.) and the heavy dent/gash on the neck above and slightly right of the 1. (There are several more as well.)&nbsp;&nbsp; Ether the guy on eBay made his obverse die from your specific coin, or your coin was made from his fake dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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