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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 7526077, member: 31773&quot;]I put BIEs aside for many years, then a couple years ago started getting more interested in them. Now I&#039;m an avid collector. They don&#039;t get much respect today, but did in the past and there were a few reference books showing line drawings to identify the types, stages, etc. Last few years the COC website has been listing them with photographs so they are easier to identify, and attributing newer coins minted since the last published references. I&#039;ve done some photographs of many of my own examples. You can see many of them here, but they seem very slow to load for some reason:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.macrocoins.com/bies-in-high-res.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.macrocoins.com/bies-in-high-res.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macrocoins.com/bies-in-high-res.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a high resolution image of a 1955-S BIE B603:</p><p><a href="https://easyzoom.com/image/125304/album/0/4?mode=manage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://easyzoom.com/image/125304/album/0/4?mode=manage" rel="nofollow">https://easyzoom.com/image/125304/album/0/4?mode=manage</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And here&#039;s 1954-S BIE B624:</p><p><a href="https://easyzoom.com/image/124774/album/0/4?mode=manage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://easyzoom.com/image/124774/album/0/4?mode=manage" rel="nofollow">https://easyzoom.com/image/124774/album/0/4?mode=manage</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, here&#039;s the 1955-S RPM #4 with BIE B650. This one is the &quot;king of BIEs&quot; and is so big it has the nickname &quot;sausage BIE&quot;:</p><p><a href="https://easyzoom.com/image/124047/album/0/4?mode=manage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://easyzoom.com/image/124047/album/0/4?mode=manage" rel="nofollow">https://easyzoom.com/image/124047/album/0/4?mode=manage</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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