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Message:: [QUOTE="PeteB, post: 7624397, member: 99412"]Why would the “casts” survive but not the struck specimen “whose present-day location is unknown”?So....it comes down to whether my coin and the BM’s are casts. In my opinion, my reverse is not the exactly the same as the BM’s. * And Mr. Richard Abdy and the late Dr. Ted Buttrey, both renowned experts in their field, did not think my coin or the BM’s were cast. Indeed, they felt originally that the BM example was struck, but tooled. They changed their opinions upon the appearance of my coin and changed the BM’s note to strike the word “tooled.” I trust their judgement.* Edit: Dr. Buttrey wrote "However the reverses were struck from three  separate dies (the nature and placing of the arches below the steeple).” So, two and possibly three separate casts?? Of what? A single authentic example “whose present-day location is unknown”?Thus, while I hold Curtis Clay in my highest regard, I respectfully disagree with his opinion.[/QUOTE]