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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2892532, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, this was exactly why I wanted the &#039;upgrade&#039;.&nbsp; Yours is very nice &#039;for these&#039; but suffers the same degree of off-flan letters that made me want the new one despite its poor strike.&nbsp; Yours is a very nice strike and has a great camel face. </p><p>Alegandron&#039;s coin has a bonus amount of REX at the expense of some Aretas but has excellent MSCAVR and both parts of&nbsp; EX SC.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d call it far above average, too.&nbsp; With over 300 dies, there is bound to be some variations on what falls where but it is nice to have all the good parts on flan.&nbsp; If you go on Andrew McCabe&#039;s site you will see that my new coin was his #2 despite the fact that his #1 is missing a lot of legend just like my old and the other two shown so far.&nbsp; #1 was well struck; mine garbled.&nbsp; It gets worse if you want things on the reverse like PREIVE(R) CAPTV (few dies have the R; fewer coins allow you to tell if the die did).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have not seen it yet.&nbsp; There must be many thousands of them I&#039;ll never see so that is no surprise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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