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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1864581, member: 19463"]The hammer is a minor type or symbol identifying the moneyer or position of the coin within the overall issue. If you search the coin you find several different symbols on both sides (cup, three dots, bee). I did not see another with the hammer on acsearch.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A286799#0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A286799#0" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar:286799#0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a nice coin that deserves to be sold no more than once a generation. I guess that is the nature of the hobby. Coins get sold until they find a collector who appreciates them enough to give them a long term home. Of the 25 coins in my link above (a couple being the same coin sold more than once), I only see three or four I'd call better than this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1864581, member: 19463"]The hammer is a minor type or symbol identifying the moneyer or position of the coin within the overall issue. If you search the coin you find several different symbols on both sides (cup, three dots, bee). I did not see another with the hammer on acsearch. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A286799#0[/url] This is a nice coin that deserves to be sold no more than once a generation. I guess that is the nature of the hobby. Coins get sold until they find a collector who appreciates them enough to give them a long term home. Of the 25 coins in my link above (a couple being the same coin sold more than once), I only see three or four I'd call better than this one.[/QUOTE]
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