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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3812320, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;m afraid that&#039;s a rim bruise and not a clipped planchet, but otherwise, the coin is not bad.&nbsp; These got heavily circulated and are often found really worn and beat up.&nbsp; I used to get them in bulk lots from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, though a Greek issue, this coin was struck under contract in France, at the Strasbourg mint (&quot;BB&quot; mintmark).</p><p><br /></p><p>The designer was one of the French engravers named Barre, I suppose.&nbsp; Maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Barre" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Barre" rel="nofollow">Albert Désiré Barre</a>?</p><p><br /></p><p>As to why that is rendered as &quot;BAPPE&quot; on the coin, I&#039;m guessing it&#039;s because the <i>Rho</i> letter is &quot;P&quot; in the Greek alphabet, which is equivalent to the Roman R. (?)&nbsp; Just speculating here.&nbsp; Funny, I never noitced it was BAPPE on these coins instead of BARRE, until just now. </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(*My first name begins with an &quot;R&quot;, so my brain often subconsciously converts P&#039;s to R&#039;s.&nbsp; Many&#039;s the time I&#039;ve made that slipup when writing stuff longhand.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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