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<p>[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 3161411, member: 87080"]That is some fine work by [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] and I agree with him that it is a class 7 penny. Another very recognizable feature of class 5 pennies of John is the hair. Class 5 hair is almost always composed of a pair of curls enclossing a pellet on each side of the head. A rarer variety has 3 pairs instead of 2. Here are a couple of examples.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811554[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811555[/ATTACH]</p><p>The top coin is Class 5b and the bottom is Class 5a.</p><p>You can also get a sense of the obverse h from class 5a and the presence of pellet stops flanking the ON on both reverses. One of the most significant features oh the massive class 7 is the absence of reverse stops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also notice the more ellongated face of class 5 as compared to the photos of class 7 above. As AnYangMan noted, class 7 looks compacted and fills up much more of the inner circle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 3161411, member: 87080"]That is some fine work by [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] and I agree with him that it is a class 7 penny. Another very recognizable feature of class 5 pennies of John is the hair. Class 5 hair is almost always composed of a pair of curls enclossing a pellet on each side of the head. A rarer variety has 3 pairs instead of 2. Here are a couple of examples. [ATTACH=full]811554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]811555[/ATTACH] The top coin is Class 5b and the bottom is Class 5a. You can also get a sense of the obverse h from class 5a and the presence of pellet stops flanking the ON on both reverses. One of the most significant features oh the massive class 7 is the absence of reverse stops. Also notice the more ellongated face of class 5 as compared to the photos of class 7 above. As AnYangMan noted, class 7 looks compacted and fills up much more of the inner circle.[/QUOTE]
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