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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3601990, member: 96898"]I have the same type (Price 2800) as in the OP. Mine was bought from Savoca London (2nd Blue Auction, lot 60). Unfortunately, I'm somewhat behind with photography, but here is the seller's picture:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]964017[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When attributing this coin, I saw that at least 20 of the 43 examples of Price 2800 uploaded to <a href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2800" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2800" rel="nofollow">Pella</a> show a circular countermark. On some of the coins, it is sharp enough to make out a roaring lion's (?) head. It would take a closer look to establish whether it's the same type of countermark on all coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The countermark seems to be specific to Price 2800 and the very similar Price 2799. It's up for speculation why these issues in particular have countermarked so frequently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3601990, member: 96898"]I have the same type (Price 2800) as in the OP. Mine was bought from Savoca London (2nd Blue Auction, lot 60). Unfortunately, I'm somewhat behind with photography, but here is the seller's picture: [ATTACH=full]964017[/ATTACH] When attributing this coin, I saw that at least 20 of the 43 examples of Price 2800 uploaded to [URL='http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2800']Pella[/URL] show a circular countermark. On some of the coins, it is sharp enough to make out a roaring lion's (?) head. It would take a closer look to establish whether it's the same type of countermark on all coins. The countermark seems to be specific to Price 2800 and the very similar Price 2799. It's up for speculation why these issues in particular have countermarked so frequently.[/QUOTE]
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