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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SRSNUM, post: 6471330, member: 102988&quot;]Continuing with CIH reverse (repeated for clarity) and Reverse Ba from Allaboutfarthings site.&nbsp; In addition, some observations of the obverse of the coin in hand and obverse 3 on the AAF website (see images above).</p><p><br /></p><p>CIH</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258342[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Allaboutfarthings Ba reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258343[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CIH</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258344[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Allaboutfarthings Ba reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258345[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CIH</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258347[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Allaboutfarthings Ba reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258349[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CIH</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258350[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Allaboutfarthings Ba reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258351[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CIH</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258352[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Allaboutfarthings Ba reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258353[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Some observations to strengthen the case for the CIH as a new die pair.&nbsp; First the obverse.&nbsp; Referring back to the images of the CIH and obverse 3 above:</p><p><br /></p><p>For the CIH, the &#039;V&#039; in &#039;VICTORIA&#039; is far from the inner circle.</p><p>For the AAF obverse 3, the upper left serif of the &#039;V&#039; in </p><p>&#039;VICTORIA&#039; almost touches the inner circle whereas the upper right serif of the &#039;V&#039; is far from the inner circle.</p><p>All denticles in the CIH above &#039;VICTORIA&#039; do not touch the inner circle.</p><p>The denticle above upper right serif of the &#039;V&#039; and the denticle above the upper left serif of the &#039;I&#039; in &#039;VICTORIA&#039; from the AAF obverse 3 touch the inner circle.</p><p><br /></p><p>All CIH denticles above &#039;BRIT&#039; are far from the inner circle.</p><p>All AAF obverse 3 denticles above &#039;BRIT&#039; touch or nearly touch the inner circle.</p><p>In the CIH, &#039;BRIT&#039; appears uniformly far from the inner circle.&nbsp; In the AAF obverse 3 &#039;BRIT&#039;, appears close to the inner circle with the upper left of the &#039;T&#039; closer to the inner circle than the upper right of the &#039;T&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>These differences to my eye appear sufficient to recognize a new obverse die for the CIH.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will follow-up later with observations about the 1868 farthing CIH reverse and the AAF B and Ba reverses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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