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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2546645, member: 1892"]Relatively trivial.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse says 36/37 - you can see the one farther spike coming off the bottom of the arrow fletches, and the dual "splotches" of detail under the olive branch, which are characteristic of just this reverse (shared by the two VAMs). So it becomes a game of deciding which obverse it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which is even more trivial. Is the 4th right star broken? VAM-37. Is it not (or just slightly) broken? VAM-36. The image <i>seems</i> to indicate a broken star, but it isn't conclusive. So we look for two other easy pickups for V37, just to confirm: bulges on the upper crossbar of the E and upper right of the P of E * P. In addition, V36 ought to have a fairly prominent die chip at the top outside of the eye, were V37 does not.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's nothing about a poor image which prohibits you from importing it and blowing it up in postprocessing to look for things like this. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So what did I find when I did so?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2546645, member: 1892"]Relatively trivial. The reverse says 36/37 - you can see the one farther spike coming off the bottom of the arrow fletches, and the dual "splotches" of detail under the olive branch, which are characteristic of just this reverse (shared by the two VAMs). So it becomes a game of deciding which obverse it is. Which is even more trivial. Is the 4th right star broken? VAM-37. Is it not (or just slightly) broken? VAM-36. The image [I]seems[/I] to indicate a broken star, but it isn't conclusive. So we look for two other easy pickups for V37, just to confirm: bulges on the upper crossbar of the E and upper right of the P of E * P. In addition, V36 ought to have a fairly prominent die chip at the top outside of the eye, were V37 does not. There's nothing about a poor image which prohibits you from importing it and blowing it up in postprocessing to look for things like this. :) So what did I find when I did so?[/QUOTE]
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