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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Bucklan, post: 3419654, member: 76544&quot;]I&#039;m not so sure this is true. Here is as good a picture of the edge as I can get:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]907505[/ATTACH] </p><p>There are three small edge clips (one shown by the arrow) but the majority of the coin edge looks original. It is very possible that the minor clipping was actually done as part of the minting process, and not at some later time.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated by Metcalf in the charts reference by [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] (this coin is #32):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 31 and 32, which are related by their secret-marks and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=style" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=style" rel="nofollow">style</a>, are apparently on different weight-standards. It seems that B. 31 belongs with Class A-2 and B. 32 with A-3. If so, they may be consecutive issues from a provincial mint, bridging the reduction in the weight-standard.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point I am in agreement with [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] in that A-3 size coins are original. In fact if you look at just the lettering shown in your example it is larger than the A-3 coin I show. At 24mm pretty much every letter shows on this example. It doesn&#039;t appear that would be the case on the larger coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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