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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2077170, member: 42034&quot;]Well I don&#039;t know definitively if it&#039;s clipped or not. This is why it&#039;s best to stay in one area and specialize.&nbsp; I did buy the coin from a reputable dealer: Karl Stephens.&nbsp; Also I have an Ohaus scientific balance so I can weigh the coin very accurately and record what it&#039;s weight is. Problem is that I&#039;m in Brazil (Sao Paulo) and the coin of course can&#039;t be kept in Brazil so it&#039;s in the US.&nbsp; However when I return and get my balance out of storage I&#039;ll weigh it.&nbsp; Note that I didn&#039;t notice anything unusual about the reeded edge, but then I&#039;m not a guinea specialist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I looked up guineas on-line and the 1st hit was this link at Victoria Museum.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/Eng_1guinea_1798_Victoria-museum_medium.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>1798 Guinea from the Victoria Museum</p><p><a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/77713/coin-1-guinea-george-iii-great-britain-1798" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/77713/coin-1-guinea-george-iii-great-britain-1798" rel="nofollow">http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/77713/coin-1-guinea-george-iii-great-britain-1798</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one looks even worse than mine for lettering near the edge!&nbsp; Maybe they&#039;re both shaved?&nbsp; I&#039;ll try to weigh it when I get back to the US.&nbsp; Of course if it was a gold plated Platinum counterfeit, Pt was cheaper than gold in the 1800&#039;s and of course it&#039;s heavier, which was subsequently clipped then it could still be the correct weight![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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