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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2272167, member: 76181&quot;]I was also tracking this coin as a possible purchase today. The coin is pedestrian but the engraving certainly changes the way we look at the coin. It&#039;s makes tangible the often intangible, one of the greatest if not the greatest allure of coin collecting......who has touched this in the past, what is its&#039; story, talk to me. Apparently the coin below did more than talk............</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/civil-jpg.452795/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure how one could prove when the inscription on the reverse was engraved or if it was indeed authentic. The attribution uses the phrase (apparently used by) and that is a bit too vague for my taste. However the estimate seemed like something low enough that would I follow it and possibly bid. In the end I did not bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW the bidding was quiet till a few days ago when it made a surge to 7, then 10 then 11x estimate. It went higher today in the last moments. I can&#039;t remember this much of a discrepancy between estimate and hammer &gt;37x estimate.... not including 15% buyer fee.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s collecting for you..........................[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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