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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1811666, member: 4373&quot;]I have been hunting for this coin for a while and it turns out to be a lot more difficult than you can imagine.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the coin for discussion:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1022881.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Overstruck over this particular coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1021218.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be honest - this has obliterated most of the details from the original host coin and I cannot tell what the year and mintmark is. However, if you rotate the coin about 20 degrees clockwise, you should be able to see the figure &quot;10&quot;. This design is only present in the German / Nazi era coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of why this happened, I&#039;m not too sure but I suspect this occured after the time when Austria was under German &quot;unification&quot;. Austria would have been minting coins under the Reich regime and when this was over, some left over planchets and coins were used to strike new coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting coinage and I reckon it&#039;s difficult to assemble a nice clear set of overstrike. While this is not a clear overstrike and I hope to get a better example, there is a better image found here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.moneymuseum.com/moneymuseum/coins/periods/coin.jsp;jsessionid=0A9070A6B4AAA83FBCF3753C4AC6CD07?i=8&amp;aid=8&amp;gid=16&amp;cid=47&amp;pi=0&amp;ps=10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.moneymuseum.com/moneymuseum/coins/periods/coin.jsp;jsessionid=0A9070A6B4AAA83FBCF3753C4AC6CD07?i=8&amp;aid=8&amp;gid=16&amp;cid=47&amp;pi=0&amp;ps=10" rel="nofollow">http://www.moneymuseum.com/moneymuseum/coins/periods/coin.jsp;jsessionid=0A9070A6B4AAA83FBCF3753C4AC6CD07?i=8&amp;aid=8&amp;gid=16&amp;cid=47&amp;pi=0&amp;ps=10</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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