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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 1531469, member: 6036&quot;]Another major aspect of Chain Cents - the hair detail is raised relief, so it wears away fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>On other cents - Wreath, Liberty Cap, Draped Bust, and the rest - they all have incuse depths in Liberty&#039;s hair; those valleys are well protected, and persist all the way down to G4 sharpness.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not so with chain cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they wear, the hair detail &quot;mountain ridges&quot; are the first to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s analagous to the raised LIBERTY on a 20c piece, versus the incuse LIBERTY on all other Seated coins; the raised detail is gone earlier during the wearing progression.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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