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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4795463, member: 10461&quot;][USER=114376]@TrademarkRob[/USER] (hey, good name!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) - welcome to CoinTalk!&nbsp; Sorry I was absent when you joined up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is mine, in copper, with a hole.&nbsp; I was offering it for ten bucks before I decided to keep it.&nbsp; Paid about a quarter for it, since I found it in a bulk lot of tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned in our private discussion, these might indeed be scarce or even rare, with surviving examples perhaps numbering only in the dozens, or hundreds, rather than thousands or more.&nbsp; (I don&#039;t know.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I suspect demand is not very strong for them, so even if they <i>are</i> rare, they&#039;re not likely to command a very strong premium unless they&#039;re in Mint State or such.&nbsp; (Again, I don&#039;t know- but that&#039;s my suspicion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided this one was a &quot;keeper&quot; since I&#039;ve had the idea of restarting my old <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">&quot;Holey Coin&quot; collection</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trivia side note: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz" rel="nofollow">this is the queen</a> for whom <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" rel="nofollow">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> (&quot;The Queen City&quot;) was named.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glad you&#039;re here.&nbsp; Hope you&#039;ll stick around and post some of the other coins you inherited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic Regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>~Robertson (&quot;Rob&quot;) Shinnick, aka &quot;lordmarcovan&quot; anywhere there are coins being discussed in cyberspace.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/8xWrg0USQqiHzvVehQOp_CharlotteMedal-obv-lg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/PxUu7NADQg6mrlv1PJgN_CharlotteMedal-rev-lg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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