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<p>[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 3791842, member: 19250"]So what akes shields so fun to collect is the varieties and more to be found as it has often been said that there's more unknown ,unfound varieties in the shield nickel series. </p><p>The reason being the early years high mintages, and a new material that was being struck.....one that by 10 k strikes the die would explode......so lots of die marriages.</p><p>Let's first look at the obv. The date has been repunched using several different punches... one really needs to compare all the digits to others used the same year.</p><p>Notice the two 8's do they look alike? How about the 6 ???.....looks more like a 9 turn the picture over.....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Next look at the RL-2 The RL stands for right leaf #2 second from top .</p><p>One major variety found on shields is the missing leaf....now this has all the leaves,but look at the RL-2 notice the outer leaf ......sort of looks like a second thought. The broken star #2 on the reverse is the dead give away for the reverse type .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 3791842, member: 19250"]So what akes shields so fun to collect is the varieties and more to be found as it has often been said that there's more unknown ,unfound varieties in the shield nickel series. The reason being the early years high mintages, and a new material that was being struck.....one that by 10 k strikes the die would explode......so lots of die marriages. Let's first look at the obv. The date has been repunched using several different punches... one really needs to compare all the digits to others used the same year. Notice the two 8's do they look alike? How about the 6 ???.....looks more like a 9 turn the picture over.....:) Next look at the RL-2 The RL stands for right leaf #2 second from top . One major variety found on shields is the missing leaf....now this has all the leaves,but look at the RL-2 notice the outer leaf ......sort of looks like a second thought. The broken star #2 on the reverse is the dead give away for the reverse type .[/QUOTE]
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