Miscellaneous: Hammered Golden Loop - No Drop (?)

[Para99]

First off, it's confusing if we currently have both the Hoop and the Loop or if people are just mislabeling their auctions as Hoop because Loop isn't on the P99 wiki. As far as I can tell there should only be one version prior to Luclin, the Loop.

The 2001 evidence of the earring is scarce because it was changed so quickly after it was released, but there is an in era Zam Wayback Machine capture.

The Wayback Machine capture from 12/11/01 has it named Loop, it's No Drop, but not Lore. While that capture is after Luclin, the information for the earring has a last updated date of October 24 2001.

12/11/01 Wayback Machine Link

At some point, the Zam Loop page was merged with the Hoop page. Comments that are on the Loop Wayback Capture from 2001 are merged with the modern day Hoop Zam page.

There are two comments from 2002 that state it was previously No Drop and changed post-Luclin.

The poster "TruKing" congratulating someone on the second drop on his server would suggest the Hoop version wasn't available for long before January 2002.

Originally Posted by TruKing

January 04, 2002
First off the earring was changed so it is no longer no drop.....
<random debating of earring's value>
Gratz to shard on his second earring and 2nd one on the server.

There is another comment from September 2002 that references the name being changed, and it no longer being No Drop.

Originally Posted by Vermis

Sep 16 2002
This earring is now named Hammered Golden HOOP and is also now Lore but not No Drop. And have 8 STA, not 7. The other stats are correct.

Current Zam Page Link

The only thing I see that supports Loop being droppable is this Magelo page which was last updated in 2006. There isn't a 2001 capture of that page to see if Magelo changed it to be droppable between 2002-2006.
Magelo Link

Maybe someone else can find more info on it because that's really all I could find despite searching several sites.