Hi ya jiggin! Nice piece! Is the interior of the hole aged like the rest of the coin? Travelers in "the day" used to put holes in their couns and sew them in their coats for safe ccarrying....so a coin with such a hole doesn't necessarily loose it's value because of it. I had a coin from the 1700s with such a hole and i thought it ruined the value, but it didn't at all! Nice Auction!
yeah,, i read to,,, that is where the word shakedown came from,,, robbers would shake your coat to see if you jingle from coins sewed into your coat ,, i don't know if that is true ,,,but it awesome ,,,,Thank you ,,,Jay