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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4855500, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks, [USER=101013]@Limes[/USER].&nbsp; I see the slight differences (I&#039;m pretty sure the &quot;point&quot; on the CNG coin is supposed to be a nose!), but I still believe the two coins are double die matches. (It shouldn&#039;t be a surprise to find a number of single or maybe even double die matches for this coin; according to Crawford, there were only 30 different obverse dies and 37 different reverse dies for this type.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly, if one of the two is a cast from the other given the very similar (or perhaps the same) flan shapes, it&#039;s the CNG coin that&#039;s a cast from mine. By the way, if you zoom in on the CNG coin, you&#039;ll notice a large number of tiny black spots all over Apollo&#039;s hair and face. What they signify, I have no idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>They could both theoretically be casts from a third coin, but I looked through all of the &gt; 100 RRDP examples on CRRO, and all of the &gt; 180 examples on acsearch, and found no other double die matches whatsoever, let alone a double die match with the same flan shape.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did, however, find what I am 99.99% sure is an earlier sale of my actual coin itself, also in Spain: Ex. José A. Herrero, S.A. [now Tauler &amp; Fau - Herrero], Subasta Numismatica Noviembre 16, 29.11.2016 Lot 156 (see <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=3489084" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=3489084" rel="nofollow">www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=3489084</a>):</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1172472[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And, after previously finding several reverse die matches, I believe I found one obverse die match, at <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=4967325" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=4967325" rel="nofollow">www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=4967325</a>, sold on 15 May 2016 in Auction 74, Lot 81 of Heidelberger Munzhandlung Herbert Gruen E.K.:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172473[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is similar, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a match.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, what I really care about is what this all means, if anything, for the authenticity of my coin.&nbsp; As to which I&#039;m still hopeful, unless and until someone authoritative explains otherwise. If [USER=79368]@Barry Murphy[/USER], [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER], or one of our other Republican experts has any thoughts, I&#039;d love to hear them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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