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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 7772027, member: 114169&quot;]I think that you have the setting under your account profile to disallow any messages.&nbsp;&nbsp; The one you received is from a site moderator who can message around that block for forum business, such as moving a thread or to issue a warning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the Knights Templar medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>What are the diagnostics on determining whether it is a reproduction?&nbsp; Knockoffs usually don&#039;t exactly mimic the design of the original piece.&nbsp;&nbsp; From what I can see, this one matches all the more worn examples that I have seen.&nbsp;&nbsp; It came from a seller that does a good amount of business in exonumia.&nbsp;&nbsp; His reputation and sales record is solid, but not perfect of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got it for significantly less than his original asking price.&nbsp;&nbsp; I paid $60, which now has me concerned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I felt confident in this one because of the little &quot;hole template&quot; etched into the obverse die.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking that little detail wouldn&#039;t be included in a reproduction die.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t a lot of these in this condition, which even if a reproduction, it must have been made by the Mint because they are still in posession of the original dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of the real lack of information on this one available in the Google-verse, I&#039;m thinking the seller really didn&#039;t know much about this medal.&nbsp;&nbsp; The same is true of the buyer when he bought it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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