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<p>[QUOTE="snewman, post: 4321149, member: 31036"]Just to close the loop - I also posted in the LSCC website and a friendly guy helped talk me through it. Decided the only way to know for sure about the obverse, was to geek out and take measurements.</p><p><br /></p><p>I zoomed in and made 3 measurements on my coin's obverse, and then Bill Bugert's photos of Obverse 1 and Obverse 4. Measured according to the photo below from the corner of the top of each 1 to the rock above - and then from the bottom of the outside of each of the 1s, using Photoshop's measurement.</p><p><br /></p><p>I put the measurements into Excel and then found the ratio of each of the measurements to see which was the better match. Naturally, there is some error involved, but the trend was obvious. My coin has a lower ratio (less steep of a slant) than Obverse 4. This is good enough for me to feel comfortable with a W-02 attribution. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097946[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1097947[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="snewman, post: 4321149, member: 31036"]Just to close the loop - I also posted in the LSCC website and a friendly guy helped talk me through it. Decided the only way to know for sure about the obverse, was to geek out and take measurements. I zoomed in and made 3 measurements on my coin's obverse, and then Bill Bugert's photos of Obverse 1 and Obverse 4. Measured according to the photo below from the corner of the top of each 1 to the rock above - and then from the bottom of the outside of each of the 1s, using Photoshop's measurement. I put the measurements into Excel and then found the ratio of each of the measurements to see which was the better match. Naturally, there is some error involved, but the trend was obvious. My coin has a lower ratio (less steep of a slant) than Obverse 4. This is good enough for me to feel comfortable with a W-02 attribution. [ATTACH=full]1097946[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1097947[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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