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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26541843, member: 104064&quot;]I&#039;ve scratched my head over how the obverse changes were done and gave up. The portrait was ever so slightly reduced in size such that the ribbon no longer touches N, the forelock is farther from O, and you can detect (I think?) that Liberty&#039;s cap is very slightly farther from TAT. Quite a while ago I noted repunching under a microscope in some letters of AMERICA and thought I&#039;d discovered a DDO, but found that these features were on all of them. And then noted that these features stayed the same going to the new obverse. So Barber didn&#039;t do anything to the legend in 1901. So how did he supposedly lower the relief and observably shrink the portrait, without touching the legend?</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the legend features I noted, particularly the E seems to have been triple punched in the upper right corner, making that corner appear rounded, whereas the other two E&#039;s have sharp corners. You can see that and the &quot;gunk&quot; inside M and A on well struck examples all the way out to 1916.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1691588[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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