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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3266035, member: 71642&quot;]I finally have a newp...a medal I&#039;d been watching on eBay for AGES.&nbsp; The seller had it on consignment (at least that&#039;s what he told me when I made an offer...it was &#039;strong&#039; in terms of what I thought it was worth, but only 1/3 of his &#039;discount price&#039;).&nbsp; I guess the owner said blow it out and it went up as a real auction.&nbsp; So I bid...and got it for less than my very old previous offer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s stuck in an NGC tomb that calls it a restrike, though I&#039;ve never seen another one, restrike or otherwise.&nbsp; The slab is scuffy and my slab cracker (aka husband with a table saw) refuses to crack it.&nbsp; The nerve.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it&#039;s a theme piece for me...Important Navy Dude (Austrian, and he&#039;s the guy who brought back Maximillian&#039;s body from Mexico after he was executed apparently), and one of my favorites--a horse based mythological creature.&nbsp; Appropriately, the hippocamp.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Tegetthoff" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Tegetthoff" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Tegetthoff</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]860344[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A good way to break a dry spell!&nbsp; Work, more work, an unexpected new car buy, etc. conspired against my numismatic pursuits lately, so this was a welcome addition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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