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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucky Cuss, post: 1894001, member: 44086&quot;][ATTACH=full]323040[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323041[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323037[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323038[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I bought this a couple weeks ago on the basis that it was likely a forgery, the drilled hole often signifying that a coin has been &quot;canceled&quot; as a phony, plus some other anomalies, making this a reasonable initial presumption.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, the coin&#039;s weight came in at 26.9 grams, and measuring its specific gravity yeilded a ratio of 10.33+, so it doesn&#039;t seem to be made of a debased alloy as would be expected of a contemporary counterfeit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, what I took to be signs of its having been possibly cast have been pointed out to me to be more probably evidence of an overstrike.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Unfortunately, even if genuine, it&#039;s in pretty rotten shape,&nbsp; Besides the hole, there is a large &quot;JIZ&quot; (or so it appears to me) hand inscribed shallowly into the Phrygian cap, as well as perhaps ten other mostly indistinct letters near the bottom rim of the obverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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