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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3133816, member: 90666&quot;]That&#039;s a very fine Cru coin, like a good wine</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Crawford lists about 20 spelling variants or errors under his 422 listing. This one is missing. Unpublished as far as I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally Doug and I have had an offline on the other coin. The question by Doug was tongue in cheek and in expanded version was &quot;what&#039;s so wrong with this coin that Andrew McCabe felt he needed to sell it&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> So I explained to Doug that I sold the coin because I bought one in similar condition with a 1956 auction provenance.&nbsp; There was nothing wrong with the coin but the addition of good provenance made the switch good for me; I incidentally thought my new one to be a bolder strike but also slightly more worn than Doug&#039;s. There&#039;s no such thing as two exactly equivalent coins. My new example:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/32684779644/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/32684779644/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/32684779644/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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