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Message:: [QUOTE="fishfinder, post: 870299, member: 17069"]Doug,Thanks, I obviously was quite confident that I guessed correctly. I did as you might say cheat somewhat. This was like a puzzle to solve and I learned much in solving it. First I mached the variety of the first two coins since the last two were matched. I looked at registry sets , ANA grading standards, statistics on the most common varieties(these two are the most common)and learned about Bolender's work. The recut 7 over the 1 isn't that easy to see on the first two B-1's. I then thought these could very well be the same grades. My suspicion was reinforced when I searched a previous guessing post with all the coins grading the same. I then started looking at slabbed examples to see what the TPG's were accepting. I was already convinced the first coin was a F-12 (as in my original post) when I ran across it in an old auction, Bingo. I was already aware of how strike and die state can effect wear and subsequent appearance. Like I said in my post, I had very little knowledge of this series and I'm  not trying to impress or mislead others that I do. Thanks, Fish[/QUOTE]