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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8148647, member: 73489&quot;]<font size="5"><span style="color: #b30000"><b>Page 89, 1907 Arabic Numeral Saint.....</b>l</span></font>ook at the top-most arrow in the picture of the rays on the 1907 Arabic Numeral.&nbsp; <i>&quot;Thin die scratches extend between rays on the left side on approximately half of the coins examined.&nbsp; These do not match marks left from die repai and weree probably an incomplete areea that Berber failed to finish.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>I look at the picture of the die scratches and it looks pretty much like imperfections in the rest of the picture of the coin. </b> Without the arrows I&#039;d be seeing nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp; How someone could ID that as die scratches...and then know that something that you can barely see doesn&#039;t match marks (?) left from &quot;die repair&quot; is amazing.&nbsp; Maybe some of you who have the book and have looked at lots of these coins can tell these differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just amazing....I guess this is maybe 2nd-hand stuff to a professional numismatist or researcher but to me I&#039;m amazed you can tell these are die scratches as opposed to just normal imperfections in a surface that isn&#039;t perfectly smooth.<img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/r266626/emoticons/thumbsup2.gif.f00bfac3dcf480e6b685e52aa825bbdb.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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