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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3767887, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m no expert, but this - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty simple, all ya gotta do is look at them to see that they obviously came from the same die. But the price being so noticeably different from all the others is your first clue that there&#039;s something special about these 2 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4983.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4983.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4983.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008265[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4985.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4985.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/saint-gaudens-double-eagles/double-eagles/1923-d-20-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1298-4985.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008266[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The die scratches all the way across LIBERTY and next to the neck above the left shoulder - they&#039;re identical on both coins. And they&#039;re easily recognized as die scratches because they are raised lines. Is it possible they&#039;re die cracks and not die scratches ? Yeah, I suppose, but if ya look close there&#039;s clearly 3 of them and none connect with the others. And die cracks usually do connect, but not always. But either way it doesn&#039;t matter if they&#039;re scratches or cracks because either one denotes a specific variety - and that&#039;s what matters.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The die scratches across LIBERTY are pretty hard not to see so I saw them immediately, and all by themselves are enough to confirm the same die struck both coins. The ones by the neck ya gotta look closer but once ya do they are identical and further confirmation of same die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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