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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8446870, member: 66&quot;]Start with the date reference numbers.&nbsp; I find the first 2 numbers are most useful and the fourth number on the 1850&#039;s.&nbsp; The number for the point of the curl is the most useful as it can usually be determined with pretty good confidence.&nbsp; I use that for the first pass to eliminate all the varieties that don&#039;t match it then eliminate the ones that don&#039;t match the first number.&nbsp; That will usually reduce it to a small number of possibilities.&nbsp; Then you just have to go to the drawing and descriptions for those varieties.&nbsp; And it does work best on coins that grade better than VF.&nbsp; And you will still put your hair out over some of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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