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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 4997717, member: 19165&quot;]It&#039;s more likely that this is some sort of &quot;bankers mark.&quot; Basically, if there&#039;s an unusual coin and the &quot;banker&quot; (or shopkeeper, or whoever) didn&#039;t recognize it or didn&#039;t trust the silver, they would mark it to see what was underneath. Many counterfeits were made from a lead or copper core and just silver plated - making a deep mark like this would show if it was silver plated or solid. </p><p><br /></p><p>Marks come in basically every shape, letter, character, or symbol imagineable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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