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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lauren, post: 1947042, member: 71463&quot;][I have one of these quarters im wanting to sell!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 1895437, member: 1101&quot;]I am&nbsp; no expert on this, but I think that it may not be so much that ‘I” was used instead of “J” but that either:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) in a different language the word/name may be spelled with an I (such as Latin)</p><p><br /></p><p>or</p><p><br /></p><p>2) that the letter J back in “the old days” looked like our modern I.</p><p><br /></p><p>For point #2, I use as an example the letter S in Colonial era documents.&nbsp; When an S appeared within a word (not at the end) it resembled today’s letter F.&nbsp; It is not that they used F instead of S, but it was the case that the way the S was written was how we might write F today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just some food for thought….</p><p><br /></p><p>And BTW, I agree that the huge c/stamp here is a little suspicious as a jeweler’s mark. He would have decimated whatever it was he crafted by using that punch on it.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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