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Ratzie33

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  1. I wish I could have seen the engrailed monogram 248 years ago upon its birth. I’m sure it was irremediably stunning. The smaller secondary initial pair is highlighted by a yellow circle.
     

    The lower right curl of the smaller E has a protruding bump and arc that matches the larger original initial suggestive of hand engraving: larger letter bump reference point visible at about seven O’ clock on the yellow circle just barely touching it.

    The lower portion of the smaller letter E upward-curving arc line crosses the yellow circle and transforms into the larger B at about a 4 O’ clock reference point. The bottom-line of the smaller E also serves as the lower portion line of the bottom hump of the smaller B as it touches the yellow circle at 6 o’ clock then begins it’s ascent at a shallow upward angle creating the pointed middle of the bottom small-centered B bubble.

    They seem married to one another in a pirate style priestly Latin letter motif. The upper line of the small-centered E terminates on the outer bubbled side of the top hump of the small-centered B pointing downward, completing the downward angle proportion of the small E line in the center of the yellow circle.

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  2. I believe it may be a brasher coin because of the highly detailed monogram, unusual for sure and the flower petal motif hugging the top and bottom of the 25c. A favorite of Brasher’s as depicted on the Brasher doubloon. Not used on any colonial American coin then or since. And if you look closely at the monogram it looks like there is a secondary EB in the center of the motif outlined in half red half blue for reference of crossover.

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  3. And I also believe the thirteen petals on the circumference represent thirteen colonies. To make a coin with an uneven number of petals requires precise and odd dimensional sizing. Some petals would have to be smaller than others to accommodate a primary number. It would take extra effort to choose a thirteen sided coin to construct. It is an odd size that matched no die pairing if the time 24.2mm in diameter.

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  4. I believe this is what the coin actually is: a promissory colonial token for a peg barrel of whiskey. The dots on the flagon denote pegs which are markers not to be crossed. These were barrels of ale drafted into communal cups with markers to tell what each person’s share of liquor was. There was a punishment for being greedy and intemperately drinking past your allotted portion, or peg mark. Violence often ensued if the liquid level crossed your peg marker. Hence the term to knock someone down a peg.

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