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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 16003, member: 708&quot;]1739 is a common year anyhow so no real loss with the hole and all.</p><p><br /></p><p>1696 and 1697 ones come in more varieties than anyone has bothered to catalogue... there must be about 40 varieties of 1697 alone. (goes to count them) Oww not far off i make it 35. And about 28 varieties of 1696.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you may have guessed something rather major was going on in those two years, namely the mass withdrawal of hammered silver coins from circulation (although they had not been minted since 1662) which meant that a whole lotta new coins were needed to fill the gap left by their demise. Also why there were provincial mint issues in those two years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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