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Message:: [QUOTE="bikergeek, post: 14807311, member: 112428"][USER=105571]@Publius2[/USER], we've all had that rush of excitement when we think we have a rare one! With worn coins, I have a trick... using Gimp (free image editor), I open your image. Then I paste a new layer containing a known reverse (in this case, Rev S from my own 1833 LM-1 in MS64). I resize and rotate until the images are pretty darn close to being oriented the same way. Then on the Layer dialog I move the Opacity slider back and forth to fade the images in and out and see if the visible devices match up. The image below is a screen cap, with both reverses visible. Any misalignment is because I was too lazy to make them "perfect." My rev S was rotated counterclockwise, as you see with the dark background. I created a video file of the opacity changing back and forth but it's too big to upload to this forum! There is of course a third reverse that was married to obverse 1: rev W is found on the LM-6, which is another R6 coin. But you probably eliminated it because the scroll ends right at the first leg of the M and the other reverses end closer to the point of the M. [ATTACH=full]1532195[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]