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<p>[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 2836244, member: 3926"]Your welcome</p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest – the results of Cad Tracing N-27 overlaid onto N-30 surprised me. Being that the triangle created by the 3 stars on each obverse matched indicated to me that a full design Hub (absent of the date) was utilized in creating 1847 Cents. I always thought this particular practice wasn’t adopted by the Mint until much later. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]669757[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I decided to expand my CAD drawing a bit further by using construction to establish the circumcenter of this triangle. This was done by drawing a perpendicular line from the middle point of each side of the triangle. The point at which these three lines intersect is the circumcenter. Using this intersection of lines as the center pivot point I drew a series of circles. It appears that the circumcenter of this triangle may also be the center point of the entire coin design.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]669759[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="justafarmer, post: 2836244, member: 3926"]Your welcome To be honest – the results of Cad Tracing N-27 overlaid onto N-30 surprised me. Being that the triangle created by the 3 stars on each obverse matched indicated to me that a full design Hub (absent of the date) was utilized in creating 1847 Cents. I always thought this particular practice wasn’t adopted by the Mint until much later. [ATTACH=full]669757[/ATTACH] Anyway I decided to expand my CAD drawing a bit further by using construction to establish the circumcenter of this triangle. This was done by drawing a perpendicular line from the middle point of each side of the triangle. The point at which these three lines intersect is the circumcenter. Using this intersection of lines as the center pivot point I drew a series of circles. It appears that the circumcenter of this triangle may also be the center point of the entire coin design. [ATTACH=full]669759[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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