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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 4212731, member: 99642&quot;]Hi, you actually won this back in Jan. correct? ( The gouge between the M and H, along with the Dots on the top of the eights in the date make this coin easy to differentiate) You won it from a buyer named A*******ns2, isn&#039;t that correct?</p><p>I won&#039;t comment on the price, other than to say you paid more than I would have , but <i>that</i> happens all the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the seller, I have purchased from him many times, and have always been happy with the transaction. He has well over 13,000 sales and a 99.99 % rating.</p><p>I consider him trustworthy. To me, his biggest fault is that, with not so well known foreign coins, he sometimes lists copper-nickel coins as silver coins. When I consider&nbsp; bidding on coins I&#039;m not so familiar with I always look them up on NGC and/or Numista, and whenever I find he made a mistake I will message him and he will immediately correct his listing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think both coins look nice. The Heritage has numerous, of what appears to be, die breaks on it. As they say &quot;Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder&quot;, so those breaks only matter to whoever is looking at the coin, and obviously, you like the coin, and <i>that </i>is what matters.</p><p>The eBay coin, with it&#039;s missing denticles and rims, and the several dings to the rim going along the left side, could give many viewers, including Hiddendragon, a good deal of pause to reflect on the causes.&nbsp;&nbsp; My best guess, and this only a guess, is a combination of wear and a very poor strike at the mint, with it being more the strike than the wear.</p><p>One side has denticles perhaps 3/4 of the way around and the other side has very few denticles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, this coin is an example of the need for a resource listing coin types and pairing them with members who have the most expertise with those types. That would be an enormous help to know who to call on for knowledgeable opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s try these guys, they had answers on the Chop marked 8 Reales last week.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER]</p><p>[USER=96174]@Bardolph[/USER][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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