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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7754235, member: 66&quot;]Many medals were INTENDED to have holes in them for suspension from a ring or ribbon.&nbsp; As such the presence of a hole does not reduce the grade.&nbsp; Some tokens were intended to have holes as well.&nbsp; For example this Burchell token from Middlesex (I do collect these) was an advertising token that was attached to packages of his &quot;Sugar Plums for Worms&quot; medication.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/g8gAAOSw06Ng4a46/s-l500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;The box was tied with a ribbon that passed through the hole in the token.&nbsp; (And if you left the ribbon through the hole the token them became his &quot;Anodyne necklace for children cutting teeth&quot;.)&nbsp; The Burchells tokens are almost always found with holes, although I do have one or two without holes.&nbsp; (I was once able to get a very nice uncirculated Burchell token from a dealer at a very cheap price because &quot;it has a hole in it&quot;.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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