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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3170125, member: 46237&quot;]These were some cell phone pics I took of the coin in the submission flip before I sent it in. It doesn&#039;t capture the mirrored surfaces but it gives a better impression of the look of the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]815292[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest I only thought it had a reasonable shot at PL, but I wasn&#039;t convinced it would get the designation. NGC is strict about giving a PL for world coins. For something like a 1915 corona you see a lot of semi-PLs, but for the 2 corona, hardly any are even semi-PL. Even without the designation I&#039;m very pleased to have this as my example of a 1912 (but I&#039;ll keep looking for one that can get the designation!).</p><p><br /></p><p>The funny thing about this date set is that I never actually set out to complete it. It&#039;s such a short set it just kind of completed itself:</p><ul> <li>The 1913KB I&#039;ve had for years as it is my type coin in my Hungarian type set.</li> <li>The 1912KB I bought for the PL surfaces for my Austro-Hungarian PL set.</li> <li>The 1914KB kind of fell into my lap. I was buying some other coins from a dealer and they brought that one out to show me as well. I suppose there&#039;s not that much interest in obscure Hungarian key dates on the US market, because it was priced relatively low. I happened to have a raw XF at the time that I then went and listed on the Hungarian market for about double what I paid for the slabbed example, and it got bought up quickly. The new coin was rather nice (perhaps the only MS example I&#039;ve seen of this key date) so I decided to keep it, which completed my Hungarian date set.</li> <li>The Austrian ones I recently purchased together. I was buying the 1912 for type, but at that point I figured why not just buy them both and complete the entire date set, as both examples were very pleasing and about as nice as I&#039;ve seen for the type.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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