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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4473462, member: 74282&quot;]Much of the detail does appear to be unoriginal. I suspect this coin has had detail built up from acrylic or enamel, along with some tooling of the metal itself. Look at the uniform rich green color of the letters and how the most detailed areas of the bust and the reverse figure are all that same uniform color. That should give you serious pause when evaluating a coin, especially where the fields have such a variety of colors. The fields have been seriously smoothed and repatinated in areas as well but some spots have some color from the original patina. This coin has had some serious work done. I am not at all surprised that the letter fell off as it was probably not original and may well have had bronze disease underneath, which is not unheard of with coins covered in acrylic like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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