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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2363763, member: 56859&quot;]Holy ham hocks, Batman! </p><p><br /></p><p>Sow-on-prow is awesome <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Yep, that would be a wonderful addition to the Pink Floyd Animals set.&nbsp; Jealous <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>M&amp;M Basel 90 took place in June 1990, so couldn&#039;t that fit?&nbsp; The <a href="http://ans.cplibraries.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=95466" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ans.cplibraries.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=95466" rel="nofollow">ANS library has a copy</a> but it isn&#039;t viewable online and so far I haven&#039;t found the entire catalog viewable anywhere online.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Didn&#039;t some numismatic organization (ANA or ANS?) recently digitize their entire library for online reading?&nbsp; I thought I bookmarked that page/site but I can&#039;t find it and it is driving me crazy.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cr121-4goodmantagcombined-jpeg.482460/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The back of that tag is interesting.&nbsp; The second &quot;word&quot; looks like a ligature (weird!). Perhaps it is some type of code for what the person paid?&nbsp; Could the ligature-ish word be some country&#039;s currency name (seems unlikely), and 80 the amount of that currency?</p><p><br /></p><p>It does seem likely that the back of the tag describes the source of the coin for the collector who wrote the tag.&nbsp; M&amp;M Basel auction 90&#039;s lots are numbered 201-495, so if it did come from that auction, 80 isn&#039;t the lot number.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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