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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2440374, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: #b30000">NOTE</span>: THIS IS NOT A 2M obverse for the reasons you have stated above!!&nbsp; They are characteristics of the Type 2 obverse.&nbsp; The 2M hub has no protrusion and doubled ribbon.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Obverse is Type 2 (old Type 2) and the reverse is 2L (old type 2 w/no berry).&nbsp; Since it has been pointed out by Coin World Editors and Trade dollar specialists that there was no reason to change the &quot;old&quot; Type 2 reverse to 2L, sometime in the future the LSCC will probably revert back to the standard Type 2 reverse.&nbsp; That gives us reverses of:</p><p><br /></p><p>Type #1 (berry)</p><p>Type #2M (protruding feathers)</p><p>Type #2 (smooth feathers as on OP&#039;s coin)</p><p>Type # unassigned as yet - the newly published &quot;split-tail&quot; hub on 1877-S coins only</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I have found two 1877-S coins with the new hub.&nbsp; One graded 62 and one raw. I suspect that MS-64 will be the highest graded &quot;Split-Tail&quot; when it is discovered in a collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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