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<p>[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 1258709, member: 18157"]This is what was throwing me off for a bit...I was comparing your coin's Reverse to the S-5 on the Stack's site...the Bergstrom & Hustkey collection. The top of the STAT[E]S on yours seems to bend away from the beads...as the S-5 in Breen's Encyclopedia. However, the Bergstrom & Huskey S-5 nearly touches the beads. On the same site, I found another S-5 from the Oliver Jung collection and it's reverse matches yours (see below...B&H left, OJ right). Now I'm interested to know the difference between the two coins on Stacks...but I digress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours (the one you're tracking on eBay) looks genuine...as near as I can tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/AN23437466-rz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/AN39238069-rz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 1258709, member: 18157"]This is what was throwing me off for a bit...I was comparing your coin's Reverse to the S-5 on the Stack's site...the Bergstrom & Hustkey collection. The top of the STAT[E]S on yours seems to bend away from the beads...as the S-5 in Breen's Encyclopedia. However, the Bergstrom & Huskey S-5 nearly touches the beads. On the same site, I found another S-5 from the Oliver Jung collection and it's reverse matches yours (see below...B&H left, OJ right). Now I'm interested to know the difference between the two coins on Stacks...but I digress. Yours (the one you're tracking on eBay) looks genuine...as near as I can tell. [IMG]http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/AN23437466-rz.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/AN39238069-rz.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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