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Or if someone has a paper version only, I can post a picture and maybe they can supply an attribution.
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I have a paper cat - can you post photos, Ill have a look.
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 Canada
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  This weighs 9.3 grams, which seems heavy for an evasion, and has a diameter of 28 millimeters. The inscription around the head is very hard to make out but is obviously nonsense, and it looks like: AGOTGEX GONNION On the Britannia side I can only see what looks like: IND on the left. Edited by oriole
12/29/2020 8:07 pm
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United States
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Not a British evasion half penny, what you have is a colonial Connecticut half penny.
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Canada
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WELL! I fooled myself.
An original or a counterfeit?
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Agreed with @Badger_Mint, I'd say its well worn, but authentic. If you ever have evasion queries, feel free to email me pics, and as I said, I'll give a shot attributing it :)
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Canada
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Thanks, @norantyki. I don't see them in Canada very often. They tend to be dumped in junk bins.
I have asked the thread to be moved to the US section.
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Quote:
I have asked the thread to be moved to the US section.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Canada
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May be CT 1787 Miller 37.8-LL
Edited by whatdowehavehere
01/03/2021 7:13 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Must be a FULL Moon a guy in Poland wants to attribute U.K. Evasions via E-mail and a guy in Canada sees them all the time in junk bins - perhaps Wood 33's confused with worn U.S. Colonials? <BG>
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@Colonialjohn - welcome to the world of the internet ;) ... also, 'want' is a bit of a strong term - one of my specializations as a dealer is UK coinage, and I happen to have a copy of the Coleman Evasions catalog - just trying to be helpful and spread the knowledge. Having lived in / dealt in Canada for a fairly long time in past, I can say that low grade 1/2ds, evasion or otherwise, tend to end up in junk bins... although I get the sense from colleagues still living there that that is changing.
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01/07/2021 10:18 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What is the title of that evasion catalog?
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fwiw: there's one heckofa group for UK & Irish Ctfts & Evasions on FB...
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