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Message:: [QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 3201121, member: 19165"]Yes, the Type II is easiest to tell with the eagle - Type I has four weak and indistinct feathers on his left wing (viewer's left, that is), Type II has 3 clear and bold feathers on his left wing. This gets a little confusing when you're talking about proofs versus business strikes, however. Proofs switched from I to II in 1956, so you can have Type I or Type II proofs in 1956. Business strikes, however, did not switch until 1959. So business strikes have a Type I and Type II in 1959. It gets a little more complicated, though, because business strikes in 1959 are known with a really cool type of doubled die: the die was hubbed first with a Type I, and then with a Type II. So you get a "Type II over Type I" doubled die, most visible again in the eagle's feathers. It's a cool 5 coin transition set, if you can get all of them.[/QUOTE]