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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2660242, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;ve been looking at the images of N-1, 23, and 30 from the Dan Holmes sale and they are definitely all the same obv, but I can&#039;t make sense out of the die stages of the obverse to establish an emission sequence.&nbsp; OK this is as close as I can get , it looks like N-30 came first then N-1 and finally N-23</p><p><br /></p><p>Diagnostics for the obv die.&nbsp; (You may have to enlarge the images to see these clearly.)&nbsp; Most noticeable are heavy die lines running up to the right through the&nbsp; curls behind the head.&nbsp; There are other dies that have die lines in this area but most are not as heavy and they run at a different angle.&nbsp; There are two strong die lines&nbsp; coming up from the denticals between stars 1 and 2.&nbsp; Just to the left of the point on star 13 that points to the denticals there is a small die gouge.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is N-30</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171371.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is&nbsp; an early die stage of N-1, all the diagnostics are still present and strong.</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171318.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now it starts to get interesting.</p><p>This is a mid stage of N-1.&nbsp; All the lines and the die gouge by star 13 are all still clearly present but there have been many rim cuds develop around the top half of the obverse.</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171319.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently the obv die was then taken out and the edge of the die was dressed to turn the rim cuds into a secondary rim.&nbsp; It was then used to strike N-23.&nbsp; This is a mid stage of N-23, notice all the lines and the die gouge are still present but weaker, and the die fields are showing the evidence of heavy die wear.</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171358.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a late stage of N-23.&nbsp; The die has now been lapped.&nbsp; The die gouge is gone and there are only the faintest traces of the lines at stars 1 and 2.&nbsp; The lines behind the head are still present but very weak showing best by the curls behind the neck.</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171359.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally the obv was remarried to create the late stage of N-1.&nbsp; Only the lines behind the head remain.&nbsp; The lines seem to be a little stronger than on the late stage of N-23.&nbsp; It is possible there were two remarriages N-1, then 23, then 1 and then 23 again because the late stage of 23 looks later then the late stage of 1.</p><p><img src="http://64.60.141.195/photos/62jpegs/171320.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now we&#039;ll look at the reverses in the next post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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