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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Underhill, post: 7885957, member: 124097&quot;]Mountain Man, thank you for the good advice.&nbsp; I&#039;ll take care to handle these coins in a way that will do no harm.&nbsp; I respect that they&#039;re already older than any of us here yet they will also go on to outlast us all and will be handled by unknown future generations.&nbsp; That&#039;s a rare thing to find these days.</p><p>Thanks also for the photo of the original 1858 for comparison.&nbsp; Seeing that, it&#039;s obvious that the fake number 3 could easily have been formed from that second eight.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did get a chance to look through a slightly better magnifier today and at that higher magnification you can see more evidence that points to modification I think.&nbsp; I took a photo which is not perfect quality but I&#039;m attaching here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess in this coin I just have an old tampered-with oddity...&nbsp; Still really interesting.&nbsp; I&#039;d sure love to know it&#039;s full story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again to all!</p><p><br /></p><p>-John[ATTACH=full]1360319[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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