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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 38324, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Merci beaucoups!</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for that link! I am sort of sorry to have missed the thread but really am happy to be able to read it all at once.&nbsp; And we still do not know what the coins weighs.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing, GDJMSP, is that neither you nor Ian relied on known <u>counterfeits</u>, unless I missed something.&nbsp; You both argued based on known facts about <u>genuine</u> coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(Your most basic problem was that of distance.&nbsp; You were all in cyberspace.&nbsp; Get the coin, the experts, the books, the rulers, the gram scales, and the lenses all in one place at one time and the solutions come quicker.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Be all that as it may, I captured and printed much what you and Ian wrote for my own references and pointers.&nbsp; Thanks, many times over.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said a while back, your good work here is one reason that I am writing up Coin Talk for an upcoming column.&nbsp; I</p><p><br /></p><p>n that discussion, you placed a link to <a href="http://www.cgb.fr" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr" rel="nofollow">www.cgb.fr</a> -- the Compagnie Generale de Bourse.&nbsp; Nice site.&nbsp; Who cares?&nbsp; There&#039;s lots of nice sites...&nbsp; So, I clicked on the Contacts and got all their names and then went over the ANS library and looked them up.&nbsp; I got two pages of printouts without listing the details, just the names and titles.&nbsp; Tets... Fel Temp Reparatios...&nbsp; book reviews...&nbsp;&nbsp; and in addition to all that parlez-vous, the occasional monograph in Italian...&nbsp; These guys are pretty serious. So, this site becomes a Bookmark for me, an important resource.</p><p><br /></p><p>Murky bow cups.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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