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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2279555, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t have a G.&nbsp; Steve is always ahead of me. I know some here will never believe what I say but there is fun in these when they get really, well, Byzantine in the &#039;intricate&#039; sense of the word.&nbsp; My offering is a class K on a Class J undertype.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455402[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mary is on both G and K but the easy to spot difference is the large size pellets on K compared to the small dots on G.&nbsp; Note my coin has the full&nbsp; MP - ΘV legend albeit a bit garbled.&nbsp;&nbsp; Class J is distinguished by the large crescent under the cross seen here poking Mary in the head and the encircling series of rosettes made of a large pellet and small dots.&nbsp; One of these is shown at the top of the reverse as it is oriented here. The obverse shows legend XC from the right side from both parents.&nbsp; The large one at 3 o&#039;clock (3H) is from the Type K while the XC from the J is rotated a quarter turn and runs down just above the middle large pellet at 6 o&#039;clock.&nbsp; I have a plain Type J for comparison but I don&#039;t have a clear K all by itself. After you establish the locations of &#039;up&#039; for the undertypes (obverse=3H; reverse=8H) you can start identifying other underparts like the Bible held by Christ from the undertype J but that is not well struck on my solo J.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]455403[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bad Steve!&nbsp; You make me want to fill out my Anonymous &#039;set&#039; but that is not as simple as one of each letter.&nbsp; I show a K but I need a K that show more K and not so much J.&nbsp; Most of these were overstruck but some like my J are more clear on the last type struck.&nbsp; That means I need a J that shows undertype.&nbsp; They you can find coins struck on a less ordinary undertype (K on something before J) or that retains traces of more than one undertype.&nbsp; These coins are not pretty, high grade, expensive or anything coin collectors are suppose to value.&nbsp; They are just fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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