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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5256292, member: 19463&quot;]Once upon a time, Bing&#039;s coin was mine.&nbsp; I got it in 1991 from Frank Robinson who was selling pairs of &#039;countermarked&#039; coins of this type where one was really countermarked and the other was made with the countermark as part of the design.&nbsp; He had several sets as I recall.&nbsp; At a later date, I upgraded the one with normal c/m&#039;s and sold the one from Frank to Bing.&nbsp; At the time, I thought the star/bowcase paired marks were neat and that the ones incorporated in the design were cut into the dies.&nbsp; Today, I would need to see others from the mark incorporated &#039;dies&#039; that proved it was a die rather than a cast but I don&#039;t know anyone else who bought these in 1991 so I have not seen proof one way or the other.&nbsp; Help appreciated.</p><p>My upgrade with paired c/m&#039;s:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1219431[/ATTACH] </p><p>The c/m incorporated from 1991:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1219432[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is one of those mysteries I will feel lucky to solve.&nbsp; I need to see another coin with the c/m&#039;s in the same place but with different centering.&nbsp; Without that, the coin I have might just be a cast fake (ancient or modern).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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