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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tcore, post: 118987, member: 2949&quot;]No problem bigdog. Don&#039;t feel bad about it. I&#039;m just trying to learn more. So, we&#039;ll all learn more together!&nbsp; :high5: </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Take a look at the original picture I posted. It looks to me like on the &quot;wire rim&quot; varieties, they too have a flat part (before the &quot;wire rim&quot;). If you look at that coin, since it is in high relief, the surface is very concave. When it comes up out of the concave part of the coin, notice that it looks like it levels out a bit (the part I&#039;ve marked in green) after it comes up out of the design.&nbsp; This is especially noticeable on my picture in the upper right (notice the shadow difference) as well as at the lower right (right by where I marked in red and green). You can definitely see that the coin surface changes angle right past the stars and it appears to level out. Then comes the &quot;wire rim&quot; on the very edge (where I marked in red).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, after doing some more looking, both edge varieties appear to have a part of the surface that levels out (where I marked in green).&nbsp; The rim or edge difference only seems to be at the very edge where I marked in red.&nbsp; Please see the attached picture and let me know if this is a more correct profile, if not exagerated a bit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So many of the coins I&#039;ve looked at are in PCGS holders and I think that it&#039;s hard to see the edge in those as it gets covered up a bit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>bigdog, I doubt there are many raw 1907 High Relief double eagles floating around nowadays.&nbsp; Heck, it looks like NGC has slabbed around 3000 of them alone.&nbsp; I suppose there are probably some old folks that have some stashed away somewhere, but I imagine most have been graded and slabbed by now.&nbsp; I think that if you were examining 1907 coins, you would know the difference right away if you saw one in high relief.&nbsp; Also, look for the date in Roman Numerals on the high relief varieties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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