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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3105266, member: 19463&quot;]That is a great example of a fourree.&nbsp; The style is just enough off normal that I would be worried about the coin but spelling and core exposure all add to the certainty of it being &#039;funny&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are enough unofficial coins that mismatch dies that I can not help thinking they were made that way on purpose.&nbsp; I can&#039;t prove why that might be but I always wondered if the maker snuck in some clues to prevent himself from falling prey to his own handiwork later.&nbsp; Of course it could just be that the two dies were copied looking at different coins but this is not an example of mechanically copied dies so there is no obvious reason for the mismatch.&nbsp; I would guess the spelling error was simply a matter of poor copying since it does not show, for example, a substitution of a Greek form for a Latin one.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lets remember that there were not standard rules for making unofficial coins. You did what you could and hoped you could get away with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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