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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2271271, member: 19463"]Without reading the other pots here I came up with May (Masabadan) Media 38 The A and the 8 are definite. I'm not sure anyone reads these 'easily'. I read the right letter of themint as being a bit squashed while THCoins saw it as more a clear D. The questionable part of the date is the far left. One thing to remember is that this language reads right to left BUT dates were expressed 'eight and thirty' rather than 'thirty eight' so it seems like we are reading the other way. The next step is up to you. Search for these mint/date combinations online and find coins to compare. </p><p><br /></p><p>We miss the late Tom Mallon. At least his site was put back online but we can't ask him for help anymore.</p><p><a href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2271271, member: 19463"]Without reading the other pots here I came up with May (Masabadan) Media 38 The A and the 8 are definite. I'm not sure anyone reads these 'easily'. I read the right letter of themint as being a bit squashed while THCoins saw it as more a clear D. The questionable part of the date is the far left. One thing to remember is that this language reads right to left BUT dates were expressed 'eight and thirty' rather than 'thirty eight' so it seems like we are reading the other way. The next step is up to you. Search for these mint/date combinations online and find coins to compare. We miss the late Tom Mallon. At least his site was put back online but we can't ask him for help anymore. [url]http://grifterrec.rasmir.com/coins.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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