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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 2219635, member: 13307&quot;]Hey!&nbsp; Just wanted to chime in here (been busy photographing new coins, but I didn&#039;t want you guys to think I&#039;d abandoned the thread.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>First off, thanks for all the opinions and thoughts.&nbsp; My personal feeling is that it&#039;s been dipped at some point, but there is still some underlying luster left in the coin.&nbsp; We all know that TPG opinions are kind of a &quot;keep your fingers crossed and pray daily to the coin gods that they show their favor to you just this once&quot; kind of thing.&nbsp; I think I&#039;d agree that it&#039;s somewhere between XF and AU.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I plan to sell it, my feeling is that it would bring more money in a slab than raw...&nbsp; While this might not be a pure fact, I think experience has shown it to be true more often than not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still...not a bad find.&nbsp; The best part of this, the BEST PART, is that I was reading in my CPG like two days before I found it, came across this listing on the page, and said, &quot;Huh...I never knew about that variety.&quot;&nbsp; And there it pops up.&nbsp; JUST like this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434732[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><b>Italy 1928R 10 Lire </b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>**FERT** Edge</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>NGC XF45</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p><p>The best part about the 10 Lire is that I was browsing CoinTalk&#039;s World Coins forum (while waiting for my ex-gf to get ready - which gave me plenty of time to read, work on my car, take a trip to Europe, etc.) and saw that design.&nbsp; Thought to myself, &quot;Wow, that&#039;s a beautiful design, I should pick one of those up if I come across it.&quot;&nbsp; No idea of value, really...</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we went to a few antique stores, where I found a bag of foreign coins with that exact coin in it!&nbsp; Same day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Can I also just express that I have a strong feeling that I&#039;ll find a 1961 Proof Franklin DDR sometime soon?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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