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<p>[QUOTE="pprp, post: 3401715, member: 94602"][USER=76965]@1934 Wreath Crown[/USER] : both of them are lovely, at some point I remember following the second one but didn't bid as I have clearly overdone it with owl tets recently <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first one, I wouldn't be so sure it is an eastern imitation, it looks like one of the early STARR groups; HAs' attribution to van Alfen pl. 11, 2 is total nonsense, that coin is a Buttrey X which has no similarity to your coin. I think NGC attributed it as eastern because of the low weight (15.5g) but that is not a factor as eastern imitations were not necessarily underweight. The style is not so crude either. See one trying to imitate STARR groups here: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1276051" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1276051" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1276051</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pprp, post: 3401715, member: 94602"][USER=76965]@1934 Wreath Crown[/USER] : both of them are lovely, at some point I remember following the second one but didn't bid as I have clearly overdone it with owl tets recently :) The first one, I wouldn't be so sure it is an eastern imitation, it looks like one of the early STARR groups; HAs' attribution to van Alfen pl. 11, 2 is total nonsense, that coin is a Buttrey X which has no similarity to your coin. I think NGC attributed it as eastern because of the low weight (15.5g) but that is not a factor as eastern imitations were not necessarily underweight. The style is not so crude either. See one trying to imitate STARR groups here: [url]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1276051[/url][/QUOTE]
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