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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 2784156, member: 71642&quot;]I&#039;ve got one Moroccan that doesn&#039;t quite fit...mintage of a million or so, but the vast majority of them were melted, and the estimated population is 100.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is one of my all time favorite designs.&nbsp; It&#039;s gold, it&#039;s art deco, and it&#039;s got a big cat (and a sun, though not the sun-face).&nbsp; As an essai it has a mintage of 60.</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo was taken through a scuffed up old NGC slab (notice the lack of prongs [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER]), though a hint of the white is seen.&nbsp; It was mis-labeled as a PF and was thus missing from the census reports.&nbsp; The die polish is strong and I must confess I was a bit chicken to send it in for correction.&nbsp; However, I&#039;ve seen excellent shots of the 58 and the 64 (a recent European auction) and have held the 62 in hand and I was convinced it had the accurate numerical grade.&nbsp; Shouldn&#039;t matter but I&#039;d hate it to lose it&#039;s &#039;rank&#039; in such a small group.&nbsp; Finally rolled the dice, and it is now in a properly labeled MS slab with the same number.&nbsp; Makes my slightly OC heart happy to see it in the corrected slab.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/ejMiPLLmRniHoXddWM1d_1930%2010%20essai%201500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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