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<p>[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 3928269, member: 28550"]I see what you're saying that the spike on the obverse of a high-relief design should stop at the lower leg of the E, while the low-relief design has a taller spike (as my coin does). However, do you see the sun ray on the reverse that terminates even with the N on the low relief design, yet continues quite noticeably on the high relief design? It appears that my coin has that longer ray, which is what caught my eye. </p><p><br /></p><p>Where there transitional dies as they switched from the high relief to low relief? Or any known instances of a high relief reverse being paired with a low relief obverse?</p><p><br /></p><p>If the concern was that producing the high relief coins was too expensive, it seems quite odd that the mint would choose to produce 35k of the trickier design, then melt them all (incurring more costs) and throw away the dies instead of releasing the trial pieces into circulation and using the dies until they failed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 3928269, member: 28550"]I see what you're saying that the spike on the obverse of a high-relief design should stop at the lower leg of the E, while the low-relief design has a taller spike (as my coin does). However, do you see the sun ray on the reverse that terminates even with the N on the low relief design, yet continues quite noticeably on the high relief design? It appears that my coin has that longer ray, which is what caught my eye. Where there transitional dies as they switched from the high relief to low relief? Or any known instances of a high relief reverse being paired with a low relief obverse? If the concern was that producing the high relief coins was too expensive, it seems quite odd that the mint would choose to produce 35k of the trickier design, then melt them all (incurring more costs) and throw away the dies instead of releasing the trial pieces into circulation and using the dies until they failed.[/QUOTE]
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