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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 176606, member: 283&quot;]The monogram does indeed look very much like the Prussian one, but whoever made that item didn&#039;t get it quite right. the crossbar of the `F&#039; should be within the top of the `R&#039;, not meeting the `R&#039; in the middle. Close, but if it&#039;s supposed to be `Prussian&#039; then it&#039;s clearly a fake, or deliberately done that way to avoid being accused of being a fake at that time?</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan is right concerning the `polishness&#039; of the reverse, which made me think that the item might have been made for South Prussia, a part of Poland which was occupied first by the Russians, and then by the Prussians (under Frederick William II). However the item does not fit any coinage I know of for South Prussia. Some kind of token perhaps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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