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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2117156, member: 19463&quot;]I will be interested in hearing the Sear result.&nbsp; I did not say the coin is fake.&nbsp; I said:</p><p><br /></p><p>I also stand by that.&nbsp; Certainly having a Sear certificate would make the coin better but I have trouble spending nearly as much on the certificate (and postage) as I would pay for the coin.&nbsp; I suppose this reverse would sell for a few hundred even in this shape so it may be the best answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing the Ponterio coin, my first thought is that it would be a great subject for tooling/smoothing.&nbsp; Without touching a single letter or portrait part but just smoothing out the fields and repatinating would produce a coin that would do well in certain auctions.&nbsp; I hope it belongs to someone who won&#039;t and I really hope they don&#039;t decide to recut the missing laurel wreath details (which would give the coin away) but this looks like a candidate for evil.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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