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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1945675, member: 19463&quot;]One thing I found interesting and reassuring was the &#039;honest&#039; drawings of the stamps uses.&nbsp; The authors grayed out parts of the punch that they had not seen actually on the flan of that particular type.&nbsp; I suspect that 99% of their guesses based on similar punches on related coin are correct but it is interesting that they took the trouble to do this.&nbsp; For those not familiar with these coins, I&#039;ll point out that no coin has all of the obverse stamps completely on the flan.&nbsp; Whe a guy like me is shopping for coins he favors examples having nice strikes of the more interesting devices that will make it easier to ID the coin.&nbsp; For example, the two coins below are, I believe, the same coin</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]338695[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]338696[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Series VIb #574 which is classified as Rarity AB = abundant (or twice as common as the rating &#039;Extremely Common&#039;).&nbsp; It would be possible to get a set of ten of these all different in which stamps show most clearly and what shap metal was used.&nbsp; If I were given a thousand random punchmarked coins, I suspect it would take me several years not to identify them but just to sort them into piles that matched.&nbsp;&nbsp; It might be a good speciality for those who do not humiliate easily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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