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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 1252640, member: 21705&quot;]OK! I&#039;ll do the play by play for you. </p><p><br /></p><p>I first determined was obverse 9 from the break above the ribbon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I looked at the reverse and it appeared to have stems which would make it S-129 or S-130. Since the S-129 pairing occurred before die sank between the parallel breaks and this one was obviously after that event, it HAD to be S-130.</p><p><br /></p><p>But then I began examining the berries and their stems and something wasn&#039;t right. My first thought was something new (always is). Was it yet another pairing of Obverse 9 or a second later pairing of S-128?</p><p><br /></p><p>Close examination revealed that neither were right. The berry on this coin was about even with the top of the E where Reverse H was definitely higher than that. Reverse I has a berry under E(D) which touches the lower pair while the berry on the coin seemed to touch the upper pair of leaves. Notice at his point I was overlooking the obvious wrong location of the leaf under the curve of D.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two reverses were stemless so I KNEW this was something new. Next step was to see if I could identify the reverse from another pairing or see if it might be the first reverse to have been reworked while adding stems. Fortunately, I chose to look at the two stemless varieties known to be paired with Obverse 9 first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse T was ruled out immediately because of the low berry right of the (N)E. I still hadn&#039;t noticed the obvious leaf point error at (E)D.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I examined Reverse J. The stems seemed to match up both in size, location and connection angle with the berries. Then I looked at the &#039;stems&#039;. What seemed obvious at first glance suddenly wasn&#039;t so obvious. Could that left &#039;stem actually be damage and/or corrosion and/or wear? is that stem on the right really there or is it just the edge of wear? It wasn&#039;t really a stemmed reverse after all. S-131 was it. Then I finally noticed the leaf at D fit Reverse J and none of the others did. The leaf under the center of S pretty much convinced me it was the S-131 stemless reverse, even though the obvious S-130 seemed to be staring me in the face.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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