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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2892502, member: 19615&quot;]This exact variety, Crawford 422/1b, is not quite impossible to find with absolutely full legends, but close. (Crawford 422/1a, typically struck on somewhat less dumpy, more spread flans, is easier though still tough.) I&#039;ve always wondered why the planchet makers and the die engravers couldn&#039;t coordinate their efforts so the entire image and inscription would actually fit on the flan. (One could ask the same question--with a lot more emphasis--of generations of Athenian engravers, who could&#039;ve with just a bit more care saved generations of collectors the agony of full-crest angst!) One of mine; a nice example really, better than most, but well short of the Platonic ideal of the type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695606[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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