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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 21348736, member: 93371&quot;]Well, the answer is NOTHING was done to this example…</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPG in their wisdom caught the “tooled F” and noted the repair, BUT the repair was done to a different coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The genuine example had a small hole that was pretty well repaired prior to dies being made to strike a series of very deceptive counterfeits, which all that I have documented found their way into genuine TPG slabs, some sold in very prominent auctions as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1542689[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My example actually shipped from China via the Netherlands; as I noted I included it with some other early struck fakes for metalogical testing at an accredited Lab in Pennsylvania. The data indicated my example was not coined with 1836 coin silver…[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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