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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2299084, member: 19463&quot;]I hope you look on this coin as favorably as I do.&nbsp; The reverse is still double struck but the perforations show just how hard it was to strike these properly and why they had to do the double striking to get a good obverse.&nbsp; This is a great obverse for these. I believe the problem was that they had trouble making dies with the same curvature for both sides and never realized the need for cup shaped blanks to do a good job.&nbsp; Soft gold worked OK with the format but bronzes were really pushing the technology.&nbsp; You hi too softly and don&#039;t get details; too hard and you tear holes in the coins.&nbsp; Neat coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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