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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3873957, member: 74282&quot;]I actually upgraded one coin this year to another example from the same die pair. I should&#039;ve kept the old coin long enough to take some side by side pictures but had to sell it to finance the upgrade:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023455[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023456[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another one I found this year. Only two die pairs are known for my rare &quot;88b Spearhead&quot; sextans struck in Sardinia. Mine is the coin in the middle with the black background which is an obverse die match to the top coin(from the NAC sale of the JD collection) and a reverse die match to the bottom coin(from the NAC sale of the RBW Collection) and the only known example that pairs the two previously known die pairs. It&#039;s also probably the worst example of the group but it does prove that if you&#039;re doing a die study every coin is valuable. Worn examples are just as valuable as mint state ones for finding die links, more important even because the mint state examples are easier to find pictures of but they may only represent a tiny portion of surviving examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023457[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023458[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023459[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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