Borghesi’s EID MAR

I was flipping though sales catalogues of Bartholomeo Borghesi (for reasons not worth explaining), and I notice the distinctive crack in the plate specimen for the EID MAR coin (no. 711). As you can see from the Schaefer Archive image the crack has grown in the last century, but it is still fun to have found its pedigree going back to 1881!

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