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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1854781, member: 57463&quot;]It seems that you need a standard reference.&nbsp; We had a discussion here comparing the classic books by George and Melvin Fuld with the new 2014 Whitman book by Q. David Bowers.&nbsp; Either way, the point is exactly as you noted: they are identified by standard dies.&nbsp; Makers offered merchants their choices of obverses and reverses.&nbsp; Many merchants, of course, had one side with their name and address, etc., But with patriotics, the production was even more formulaic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend the Society highly. If you are serious about this, you will benefit greatly from not reinventing the wheel.&nbsp; The CWT Society publishes the leading edge in research and discovery.&nbsp; Their newsletter ultimately drive and define the market values of these issues. </p><p><br /></p><p>That is generally true.&nbsp; Most collectors settle for a Red Book or Greysheet, never knowing how those editors derive their guesses.&nbsp; The speciality clubs are the engines of the hobby.&nbsp; If you have a specialty and are not in a national club, you are paying a huge hidden cost in ignorance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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