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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 997243, member: 19463&quot;]Correct me if I&#039;m wrong but I believe there are two reasons that it is hard to get a coin with great edges like Larry&#039;s. One is that the things are so big that they put quite a hit on each other when the rattle around in a bag. The other is the flans often had little flaws that made an easy place to chip away a hunk. I believe I see such a flaw line on the obverse bottom of Larry&#039;s coin between 5 and 6 o&#039;clock. One good hit there and you could get a really ugly hunk out of the edge not all that different from this one I pulled out of a junk box. I selected it because it had good detail while others had better edges and more wear or worse strikes. Obviously we all would rather have a perfect coin but it is interesting what happened to a lot of these along the way. Does anyone have any that were countermarked or engraved with initials? I remember a lot of these in the boxful I got mine from and now wish I had bought a couple of the worst ones (cheap!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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