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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fallguy, post: 2917478, member: 84739&quot;][ATTACH=full]705702[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]705693[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While the question has obviously been answered, I didn&#039;t want you to think that I forgot you; old age just makes me slower<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. At any rate, I brought your 2 images into my new photo package; did some adjustments; placed markers on both, then overlaid image 2 on one and WOW! They didn&#039;t line up! (See Comparison!) BUT, I kept looking at it and started changing the opaqueness back and forth and noted that the diameters (especially horizontal) were markedly different. Then I remembered that I had noticed that the H and W of the original images were different so I resized one image to match the other, and OOPs, distorted its Width.</p><p><br /></p><p>So back to the drawing board and a more systematic approach. Brought them both in to the program as is; changed the color to B&amp;W and did an identical HiPass Sharpening to jack up the contrast. I then took those images over to a CAD program and took some measurements (relative not actual): distances between bottom left of &quot;L&quot; in LIBERTY and the bottom of the &quot;Y&quot;, as well as the distance from the bottom of the &quot;Y&quot; to the bottom tip of the last &quot;9&quot; in 1909 . . . the distances were identical to the 100th.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the photo program and zoomed to the point of pixilation so I could place markers as precisely as possible; made an overlay of image 2 and placed it over image one . . . the verdict as can be seen in Comparison 2 (ignore the marker on the front of the vest)&nbsp; is that they both came from the same Obverse Master Hub (unless someone was an absolutely terrific forger), but then you all already knew that<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Semper Fidelis[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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