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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4204091, member: 73489&quot;]<b><span style="color: #b30000">Type 1 HR vs. Type 2/3 Differences:</span></b>&nbsp; One of my favorite &quot;tells&quot; for authenticity of Saints is to look at Liberty&#039;s right leg and look for 3 &quot;V-shaped&quot; folds.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know that there must have been some minute changes to the dies aside from relief changes when they went from High Relief to normal relief with the Type 2 &amp; 3 coins....OR....it&#039;s just not as prominent on the High Reliefs.&nbsp; But it&#039;s clearly visible on the Type 2&#039;s/3&#039;s and not on the Type 1 HR&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>You can only see 1 fold here in a 1907 HR:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1077893[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Here are a 1923-D and a 1908 NM with the 3 folds:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1077894[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1077895[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>It might be a strike issue and maybe other Type 3&#039;s also don&#039;t show the 3 folds, I haven&#039;t looked year-by-year.&nbsp; Comments welcome, I&#039;ll also do more DD.<b> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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