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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KurtS, post: 2124456, member: 11786&quot;]Here&#039;s a coin that I spotted on eBay last week, which took some investigative work to correctly attribute. It&#039;s an NGC slabbed coin; the seller&#039;s pics weren&#039;t very good, but I spotted something underneath the last digit in the denticles:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8736/16440106434_8d821e39ff_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Which had me wondering--was this the Snow-2 MPD, a nice variety--which has a &quot;94&quot; poking out of the denticles, as shown below:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8798/16442530583_e2128d5c4b_c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;4&quot; looked to be in the right place, but where was the &quot;9&quot;?&nbsp; Seeing a lone mark isn&#039;t enough for me to bid on a coin. I needed a better confirmation to make it worth my while...so I went looking for other markers.&nbsp; And I found an unpublished marker on all examples of this variety--there is a small, curved die gouge underneath the chin that does not appear on any other obverse dies for 1894.&nbsp; Below is the gouge pictured on an MS S-2 (left), and on the coin I bought (right)--do you see it?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7678/17062549555_9590990ce8_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And sure enough, when it arrived both MPDs were visible. The pics below are shot through an NGC slab graded EF40 (I give it a VF30).&nbsp; It&#039;s an MPD I&#039;ve been looking for--I&#039;m happy to pick this up (without other bidders) for just $35 shipped. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Primary markers under the date area:</p><p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8722/17062301362_7ab7694717_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The whole obverse--it&#039;s hard to shoot in slabs. NGC gave this an EF40; my grade is VF30. A nice, even brown without problems.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8756/17061758011_9eb782f205_c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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