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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 4978388, member: 21705&quot;]A little further investigation indicates it was likely struck on an old planchet &quot;of the Gourdon copper purchase of August 1793. Planchets are often out of round and usually have lamination defects.&quot; {Remarks Breen 17a}</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...planchet quality is best summarized by the description accompanying the Jack H. Robinson coin (lot 22): &quot; The planchet appears to have been a &#039;mud-ball&#039; rather than copper stock considering the striations, fissures and laminations...&quot; {footnote Breen 17a}</p><p><br /></p><p>The Taylor &amp; Bailey blanks (planchets) used on the high quality strikes of the early die states of 18b would not fit this coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>This could be a very early strike of the die before the new planchets were struck or an old planchet left in a barrel and struck later. The die state is probably early to middle since the lettering on the reverse is there despite the lamination and late die states have developed a bulge from a sunken die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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