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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3118973, member: 82549"]If you look to the left of the "S" at around--assuming the S is at 6:00--7:00, you'll see an artifact on the edge that looks like a bowl, or a C lying down for a little rest. This "Lazy C" is likely just a random result of corrosion/preservation effects on the beaded border.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think your coin might be a C* after all, but with another weird preservation artifact, the top of which just happened to cover the base of the C, making it look like an S. It looks like the bottom of the S goes all the way down into the border. That seems a little strange. </p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have a microscope? It looks like there's a tiny little bump about where the lower serif of the C should be that continues into what appears to be the lower half of the S.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3118973, member: 82549"]If you look to the left of the "S" at around--assuming the S is at 6:00--7:00, you'll see an artifact on the edge that looks like a bowl, or a C lying down for a little rest. This "Lazy C" is likely just a random result of corrosion/preservation effects on the beaded border. I think your coin might be a C* after all, but with another weird preservation artifact, the top of which just happened to cover the base of the C, making it look like an S. It looks like the bottom of the S goes all the way down into the border. That seems a little strange. Do you have a microscope? It looks like there's a tiny little bump about where the lower serif of the C should be that continues into what appears to be the lower half of the S.[/QUOTE]
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