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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7836312, member: 74282"]Thankfully, Richard Schaefer has completed much of the "Heavy lifting" here. His die study illustrates 13 examples of the variety with "AL" mintmark(shown at top), 5 with the dots(all from the same reverse die as mine, at bottom left), and 7 examples with no dots and no mintmark(bottom right) and no reverse die represented in either of the other groups appears to be a candidate for being an earlier or later state of this reverse die.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1347290[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1347292[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also the larger <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995474" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995474" rel="nofollow">Crawford 110/1a issue with "Wreath" mintmark</a>, which is a sibling issue that is very closely related to the "AL" issue as well as all of these coins with no mintmark or dots, however we can rule out all the "wreath" reverse dies because they all use a different form of "A" in Roma where the crossbar comes from the right, instead of coming from the left as it does on all the coins illustrated above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7836312, member: 74282"]Thankfully, Richard Schaefer has completed much of the "Heavy lifting" here. His die study illustrates 13 examples of the variety with "AL" mintmark(shown at top), 5 with the dots(all from the same reverse die as mine, at bottom left), and 7 examples with no dots and no mintmark(bottom right) and no reverse die represented in either of the other groups appears to be a candidate for being an earlier or later state of this reverse die. [ATTACH=full]1347290[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1347292[/ATTACH] There is also the larger [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995474']Crawford 110/1a issue with "Wreath" mintmark[/URL], which is a sibling issue that is very closely related to the "AL" issue as well as all of these coins with no mintmark or dots, however we can rule out all the "wreath" reverse dies because they all use a different form of "A" in Roma where the crossbar comes from the right, instead of coming from the left as it does on all the coins illustrated above.[/QUOTE]
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