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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 3059251, member: 76105&quot;]As someone who loves early S mint coins (Seated and Liberty Head) this is an amazing find to me. However, the new discovery seems to be a different obverse die from the first coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll use a denticle ruler like on Seated dimes. Going straight down from the tip of the bust and counting that as denticle 0, the first coin is position 0B1 (with the left tip of the bottom of the 1) while the discovery coin is a 1C. The date is in a different position.</p><p><br /></p><p>To explain that a bit easier, the first coin has the left tip of the 1 pointing down to the space between denticles. The discovery coin has the 1 pointing down to the center of a denticle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, the Smithsonian example (on PCGS) also has position 1C. The Smithsonian example also has the weakness on the 4 that the discovery coin has. The Boyd piece has the same date position. I don’t think any pictures of the Dupont piece exist - it was stolen in the 1960s and has never been seen since.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the first picture of a genuine 1854-S $5?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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