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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2156922, member: 74300&quot;]Hi, steve,</p><p>I&#039;m no where near as experienced as others, and that&#039;s probably why I raise more questions, because I am unable to differentiate many similar features. So you shouldn&#039;t feel alarmed if I had pointed something out, much of that comes from inexperience itself.</p><p>That said, part of my work is closely associated with casting of different materials, so I might observe things that can be overlooked by others, from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are what I have noticed on that coin:</p><p>For how worn the image and letters were, we see certain places where the rim showed sharper lines.</p><p>In this particular area there&#039;s also the little ridge (between purple arrows), could had resulted from a cracked or damaged die of course.</p><p>There are a few pimple-like protrusions, although they can be result of horn silver formation, next picture will show why I thought they were perhaps placed bit too conveniently.</p><p>I didn&#039;t circle out the indentations in this area but you can locate a few, they don&#039;t always mean something though.</p><p><img src="http://i59.tinypic.com/2w4wbc6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>You can find those pimples in other areas of the rev. but they are bit more concentrated on the obv.</p><p>I&#039;m not familiar enough with this coin type to comment on style or gained/missing devices but the indentation between eyebrow and upper eyelid isn&#039;t all there, and ear looked bit stuffed.</p><p>On this cap you can also see &quot;pimples&quot;, some concentrated in recessed areas, where they were generally smooth indented line?</p><p><img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/2ennhgl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just some observations. Probably not worth giving any thought, especially if the coin was already confirmed by experts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers</p><p><br /></p><p>edit:&nbsp; I didn&#039;t see your comment below the cartoon. Since it was already examed by sear you can definitely ignore what I&#039;ve said. I&#039;m sure they have powerful enough magnification to see compression of surface material, and can tell if those pimples were horn silver, something that&#039;s only of concern when they aren&#039;t differentiated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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