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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3117579, member: 82616&quot;]I wonder how much of this was engraver&#039;s whim? For instance, the cloak on the OP coin - it&#039;s very likely the cloak was on the very earliest version of the type. Later, the type was simplified by the disappearance of the cloak. Was this minor change due to the engravers tiring of depicting it or was this direction from the &#039;top&#039;? Without surviving mint records, our efforts to figure out such questions are almost futile. It&#039;s fun to think about them though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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