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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2145715, member: 24633&quot;]If you&#039;re referring to the way the upper lip curves downward and then back up slightly, that is very common. It was designed that way on the first year, 1878.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your other question, if I understand you correctly, there may be multiple issues that occur in the course of striking these coins, but not all of them are important enough to list in the variety attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, die clashes were extremely common for almost all years, but unless they involved letter transfers, they weren&#039;t noted. The same is true for die cracks. The dies were subjected to 130+ tons of strike pressure, so cracks were common, and more often than not, these cracks were used as die markers to determine die state.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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