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<p>[QUOTE="Carthago, post: 2453973, member: 76111"]This is a very good question! Here is an example of the hanging fruit from Crawford's line drawing, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513086[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I researched Banti and he didn't have an example of your particular control mark. I then researched CRRO and found one in the British Museum that I believe is the same as yours. The BM has it listed on their website as "Fly?" so they aren't sure. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/j5p5htf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/j5p5htf" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/j5p5htf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Your control mark is much better than the BM and I don't think it looks like a fly. My first impression, without even reading TIF's comments was that it was a piece of fruit.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the mystery continues...great provenance and interesting coin, btw. Perhaps Mrs. Clain-Stefanelli knew it was a very unusual control mark and had it in there collection for that very reason![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carthago, post: 2453973, member: 76111"]This is a very good question! Here is an example of the hanging fruit from Crawford's line drawing, I think. [ATTACH=full]513086[/ATTACH] I researched Banti and he didn't have an example of your particular control mark. I then researched CRRO and found one in the British Museum that I believe is the same as yours. The BM has it listed on their website as "Fly?" so they aren't sure. [url]http://tinyurl.com/j5p5htf[/url] [ATTACH=full]513088[/ATTACH] Your control mark is much better than the BM and I don't think it looks like a fly. My first impression, without even reading TIF's comments was that it was a piece of fruit. So the mystery continues...great provenance and interesting coin, btw. Perhaps Mrs. Clain-Stefanelli knew it was a very unusual control mark and had it in there collection for that very reason![/QUOTE]
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