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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3553125, member: 10461"]When I typed up the flip insert for this one recently, I listed both maximum <i>and</i> minimum diameters, and fudged it a little by throwing that "approx." in there, since the lines on my calipers are so tiny and hard to read. (Haven't graduated to a proper set of digital calipers yet.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I've seen some sellers describe an ovoid or irregular coin like "<i>8x10 mm</i>", too, for example- just like [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] did above.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcollectivecoin.imgix.net%2FKkTbCAVAQaGfQ6hqdRHi_Fanam1-collage.png&hash=e90d62f1b11ecfbe1c334bfe7eecff8a" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">*This coin is one of the ones up for grabs in this month's (6/2019) giveaway, BTW. Click the link below, at the bottom of my signature, if you feel like entering the drawing.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3553125, member: 10461"]When I typed up the flip insert for this one recently, I listed both maximum [I]and[/I] minimum diameters, and fudged it a little by throwing that "approx." in there, since the lines on my calipers are so tiny and hard to read. (Haven't graduated to a proper set of digital calipers yet.) I've seen some sellers describe an ovoid or irregular coin like "[I]8x10 mm[/I]", too, for example- just like [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] did above. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcollectivecoin.imgix.net%2FKkTbCAVAQaGfQ6hqdRHi_Fanam1-collage.png&hash=e90d62f1b11ecfbe1c334bfe7eecff8a[/IMG] [SIZE=3]*This coin is one of the ones up for grabs in this month's (6/2019) giveaway, BTW. Click the link below, at the bottom of my signature, if you feel like entering the drawing.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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