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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 357907, member: 6036&quot;]OK help me out here Ben.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My understanding is the obverse master die contained the bust and nothing else. Any variations come from all the other motifs (stars, numerals, etc).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also understand they made a new master die in 1832, so we expect all coins before that to differ from all coins after that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Why, then, does O-116 have a distinctive curl to the lips ?</b> I would have guessed all features of the bust itself would be identical all year long, &#039;twixt varieties, and even &#039;twixt all years from the same master die.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Apparently they did some massaging of bust details on the individual working dies, yes ? So some differ from the master die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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