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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeEatWheaties, post: 1151047, member: 26972&quot;]This thread maybe image intensive. Stop here if your browser does not auto size.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know there are other MPL threads, however the one thing that is consistently missing from those threads is image evidence.&nbsp; Often those threads end with go buy the book.&nbsp; I bought the book and I have a huge headache.&nbsp; First off, the images are terrible.&nbsp; The written die diagnostics do not have arrows or anything pointing to often blurry black and white images.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a huge headache over the 1916 MPL vs Business Strike die diagnostics. </p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, this is another case of me, a newbie questioning the authorities.&nbsp; I swear coin collectors for the most part are sheep. I have always questioned all my 50 years of life, coin collecting is the first hobby where I have felt ......&nbsp; banned for stating obvious facts and tying those facts to an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example:&nbsp; Why should we accept this:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Illini420 posted the link to the entire thread and I thank him. It is a very good read. many props to the OP.&nbsp; <a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=677828&amp;STARTPAGE=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=677828&amp;STARTPAGE=1" rel="nofollow">http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&amp;threadid=677828&amp;STARTPAGE=1</a> What a shame that the thread ended and even more a shame that when recently bumped, a member basically told him not to do that?&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder, I bet that those who establish these principals have a vested interested in making sure that all the sudden, populations aren&#039;t doubled/tripled.&nbsp; Harsh?&nbsp; not if you have a couple hundred k tied up in MPL&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>The physical characteristics of a coin are what they are. It is ludicrous IMO to use graders opinion (guess) of a coiners intent as the last stop for authentication.&nbsp; wow!</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is, I can produce images of 1916 Lincoln that clearly have MPL die diagnostics that apparently are not MPL&#039;s???&nbsp; &nbsp; Yet there is no explanation ever given for this sort of thing:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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