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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3763720, member: 78244"]There’s so little variation between varieties that I often wonder why people go out of their way to pay $$$$ for rare late-date varieties. They are very difficult to attribute without $500 books because there is so little difference. But the differences apparently matter, so I continue killing my eyes attributing them in case I have a rare variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book you have is excellent. I always start with the date and narrow down the varieties from there. It typically reduces the number of potential varieties from 20-50 to 5-10. Then you narrow it down further by specific die diagnostics (spikes, cracks, etc) and compare to images.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I used a digital copy of the Newcomb book because I didn’t care enough to pay $500 for the updated Grellman/Noyes books)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3763720, member: 78244"]There’s so little variation between varieties that I often wonder why people go out of their way to pay $$$$ for rare late-date varieties. They are very difficult to attribute without $500 books because there is so little difference. But the differences apparently matter, so I continue killing my eyes attributing them in case I have a rare variety. The book you have is excellent. I always start with the date and narrow down the varieties from there. It typically reduces the number of potential varieties from 20-50 to 5-10. Then you narrow it down further by specific die diagnostics (spikes, cracks, etc) and compare to images. (I used a digital copy of the Newcomb book because I didn’t care enough to pay $500 for the updated Grellman/Noyes books)[/QUOTE]
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