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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2872841, member: 10461&quot;]I had pretty much made up my mind to buy Coin #1, and relayed this decision to Najaf, the dealer, but he replied with this bit of info:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(I had mentioned to him that I was going to be submitting the coin and wanted to avoid a &quot;problem&quot; designation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So it appears my suspicions of a possible mount removal on Coin #1 were not unfounded.&nbsp; I must give credit to Najaf for his candor and honesty.&nbsp; I&#039;m now waiting to hear back from him on whether he found a third candidate with the AH 1233 date.&nbsp; If I understood our conversation so far, I do think he&#039;s going to let me buy at the $350 sale price (+ S&amp;H and fees), regardless of which coin it ends up being.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it appears I might be buying Coin #2 from the OP, or maybe an as-yet unseen third coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin #1 appealed to me for the reasons previously mentioned, but if it&#039;s unlikely to straight-grade, I&#039;ll give it a pass, since I&#039;m trying to avoid &quot;details&quot; graded &quot;problem&quot; coins in the Eclectic Box.&nbsp; (However, both my pieces of medieval hammered gold presently in the set ended up with &quot;details&quot; grades, which is why I&#039;m a bit gun-shy on hammered gold at the moment, since my track record is 0 for 2 in that category so far.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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