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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3012570, member: 82549"]Identifying the countermark may be the best you can do with this coin. Cleaning is unlikely to reveal any further detail as most of the coin has already been stripped down to bare metal. If the mottled appearance bothers you, you could remove the rest of the green using electrolysis, giving you a more evenly-colored surface, but I'm not sure what the point would be.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am curious what that small circle is at around five o'clock on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3012570, member: 82549"]Identifying the countermark may be the best you can do with this coin. Cleaning is unlikely to reveal any further detail as most of the coin has already been stripped down to bare metal. If the mottled appearance bothers you, you could remove the rest of the green using electrolysis, giving you a more evenly-colored surface, but I'm not sure what the point would be. I am curious what that small circle is at around five o'clock on the reverse.[/QUOTE]
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