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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 24229, member: 708&quot;]Another thing i find fascinating about hammered issues is that to date them you have to know how to read the codes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So some issues can be distingished by bifoliate crowns, others by trifoliate. Some have say 9 tressels others have 8, some have fleurs at the cusps others don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Annulet stops, lombardics m&#039;s and n&#039;s, reversed letters. All of which tell you which issue and what date.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kinda like solving a crime, a modern coin with a date slapped on it just totally lacks that interactive challenge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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