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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samclemens3991, post: 13514527, member: 82181&quot;]UPDATE&nbsp; I am afraid that our attempts to get pictures of the coin were a complete fail.&nbsp; (It did not help matters that my daughter Allison dropped her phone during the blizzard and then proceeded to run the poor thing over with her car).</p><p>We used shipping tape to put the thing back together.&nbsp; On the one hand it is surprising it works, however the tape seems to have made all the pictures blurry.&nbsp; I spent some time this morning trying to adjust photos but no luck.</p><p>On the other hand, while trapped in a hotel room for a few days awhile back I made a discovery.&nbsp; (The room had a desk with a lamp that must have been 1000 watts.)&nbsp; Lucky for me I had coin and loupe along since I knew I would have hours of dead time. </p><p>The coin DOES HAVE clash marks on the reverse.&nbsp; That was the only point holding it back from being identified as a Fortin 105.&nbsp; I can only assume the obverse clash marks must be some version of 105 and perhaps they were lapped off on later coins.&nbsp; Maybe right , maybe wrong, but at least I can log it in my journal with an asterisk.&nbsp; James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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