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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 719412, member: 4350&quot;]Jessash1976,</p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m reading your post correctly and please feel free to tell me if I&#039;m not...</p><p><br /></p><p>If you sent in a 2009 cent for an attribution,&nbsp; what may seem simple can be more than meets the eye.&nbsp; There are so many 2009 die varieties being found that if yours happens to be a new one,&nbsp; it would have to be compared with maybe 30 other die varieties in the files of perhaps 5 or 6 attributors, for example before it can be declared as new.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be the same process even if the coin was not a new discovery since there are so many others that it would have to be compared to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the 2009 die varieties are so close to each other when they are compared to one another that miniscule, microscopic die markers come in to play to determine one die variety from another.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do attributions too but I don&#039;t keep files so I don&#039;t get too heavy in to that at all.&nbsp; I stay basic,&nbsp; is something a doubled die or not, for example.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to get into the complications of figuring out on a new variety whether or not the coin is #23 or #47 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The guys that do that like Potter,&nbsp; Wexler, and all the rest are careful and precise.&nbsp; It is more than looking at a coin and saying Yes or No<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; it&#039;s a doubled die or it isn&#039;t<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is so much more behind he scenes of attribution than people realize<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Tell me what you think the coin is as it may not be another of the 2009 die varieties...PM me if you don&#039;t want to let any cats out of any bags.&nbsp; It will remain confidential.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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