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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 592394, member: 2972&quot;]Not so fast....</p><p><br /></p><p>Attribution is not a multiple choice question with 3 answers when it comes to this date.&nbsp; There are thirty something varieties, IIRC, and you can&#039;t just look at the date to attribute them.&nbsp;&nbsp; And guess what?&nbsp; It get&#039;s even worse/harder to attribute date placement in lower grades (and LDS)!&nbsp;&nbsp; However, you can attribute many of them, even in relatively low grade, because of the small die chips (in this case on the reverse in the E in CENT).&nbsp; In my experience and more often than not, it is the reverse die chips that end up identifying the coin, and not the date placement.&nbsp; I suspect Mr. Grellman and Mr. Sheldon would agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is there is NO system for quickly attributing these coins -- and IMO it has nothing at all to do with a lack of scholarship on the series, but rather because of the minute differences between die pairings.&nbsp; It&#039;s not the book or lack thereof, it&#039;s the coin and lack of identifying features!</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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