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What do you think is on the other side?

TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It's 13mm across (but only 10mm on the other side) and at some point was a part of something bigger... image

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    ajaanajaan Posts: 17,935 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What do you think is on the other side? >>


    An image of Aethelred 'streaking' through the woods?


    Please tell me it isn't.

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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What do you think is on the other side? >>


    An image of Aethelred 'streaking' through the woods?


    Please tell me it isn't. >>



    If it is you should thank your lucky stars it's not a two-sided coin image
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    StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure of the correct terminology, but I'm guessing a die for hammered coins? This is the part they struck that has mushroomed out over time (unless they were intended on being conical or triangular).
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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice try image It's a counter-stamp issue with the side facing us completely obliterated due to strike... It has a close connection to my collecting interest (Spanish Colonials)...
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wild guess: El Salvador arms?
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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a Guadeloupe (British Occupation) 20 Sous. It's a "plug", punched-out of 8 Reales. What I like about this one is the barely-visible "castle" from the underlying design (bottom left). I would love to eventually own the other part of this issue (9 Livres), but they are pretty pricey...

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    HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
    Nice one Roman. image

    I have never seen one of those before. So is it kind of like the later Australian holey dollars. Where they made two coins by punching through a larger foreign coin?

    Hus
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    HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
    Nice one Roman.

    So is it kind of like the later Australian holey dollars. Where they made two coins by punching through a larger foreign coin?

    Hus
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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So is it kind of like the later Australian holey dollars. Where they made two coins by punching through a larger foreign coin? >>



    Thanks, Hus! Here's the 9 Livres part:

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    STLNATSSTLNATS Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭
    What a great find. Congrats.

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    TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,958 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just came back from PCGS in a brand-spankin' new XF40 slab image
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