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<p>[QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 204215, member: 6763"]Phoenix:</p><p> The "M" is a letter scratched into the coin, probably a hundred & fifty years ago. Many of these have initials scratched into them.</p><p> There was a hoard located upstate NY a few years ago that all had an initial scratched into the obv top. The owner did it so that if he ever saw them being used in town he would know that someone had gotten into his hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 204215, member: 6763"]Phoenix: The "M" is a letter scratched into the coin, probably a hundred & fifty years ago. Many of these have initials scratched into them. There was a hoard located upstate NY a few years ago that all had an initial scratched into the obv top. The owner did it so that if he ever saw them being used in town he would know that someone had gotten into his hoard.[/QUOTE]
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