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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4341538, member: 19463"]I tried to get interested in these but, as too often the case, soon moved on to other coins without giving the attention required. The skill here is being able to recognize small parts of some marks and not be distracted by the nearly pervasive six arm and sun marks. When buying from unidentified lots, I found myself accumulating 'duplicates' of a couple types (like GH574) to the point I had to refer to them by shapes. The book even has a section on 'unclear' coins and the coins I saw and could make neither up nor down of some marks was all I needed to move on. I do believe the GH book is a great effort and their excellent photos and drawings made seeing the ID's of the plate coins easy. Translating that to my 'ordinary' coins did not prove immediately obvious. Do not take my ID guesses too seriously. They are not guaranteed. </p><p><br /></p><p>GH574 (My Indiana)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099792[/ATTACH] </p><p>GH 574 My round</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099794[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>GH 574 My square</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099793[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>another?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099796[/ATTACH] </p><p> </p><p>GH 586 There are three separate punches for the three men - I failed to find one with the three together on one punch.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099795[/ATTACH] </p><p>I paid Don Zauche $7 for this one as a challenge to see if I could ID it but it turned out to be over my head. I thought the five dot 'die' would make it easy. It did not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099797[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4341538, member: 19463"]I tried to get interested in these but, as too often the case, soon moved on to other coins without giving the attention required. The skill here is being able to recognize small parts of some marks and not be distracted by the nearly pervasive six arm and sun marks. When buying from unidentified lots, I found myself accumulating 'duplicates' of a couple types (like GH574) to the point I had to refer to them by shapes. The book even has a section on 'unclear' coins and the coins I saw and could make neither up nor down of some marks was all I needed to move on. I do believe the GH book is a great effort and their excellent photos and drawings made seeing the ID's of the plate coins easy. Translating that to my 'ordinary' coins did not prove immediately obvious. Do not take my ID guesses too seriously. They are not guaranteed. GH574 (My Indiana) [ATTACH=full]1099792[/ATTACH] GH 574 My round [ATTACH=full]1099794[/ATTACH] GH 574 My square [ATTACH=full]1099793[/ATTACH] another? [ATTACH=full]1099796[/ATTACH] GH 586 There are three separate punches for the three men - I failed to find one with the three together on one punch. [ATTACH=full]1099795[/ATTACH] I paid Don Zauche $7 for this one as a challenge to see if I could ID it but it turned out to be over my head. I thought the five dot 'die' would make it easy. It did not. [ATTACH=full]1099797[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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