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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 24661686, member: 4920&quot;]Well but that&#039;s what I&#039;m trying to determine. I&#039;ll put you down for thinking they look like they&#039;re from the period, then.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anybody has any that look like these, I&#039;d be interested in seeing them. The dates on just these three coins span some 30 years. These all could have come from one place at one time or they could have come from different places over those years. They&#039;re not of a quality that would wind up in the Czar&#039;s palace, they&#039;re obviously peasantry quality. They do look standardized, though. The grooves along the circumferences are suggestive of that. Somebody made and sold these, and somebody had the resources to solder them on, probably a blacksmith, not necessarily a fine jeweler. I just want to know more about that. Here&#039;s an 1855, in which, it appears, the loop was removed...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1572171[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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