Stop the press!

Like that helps! :goof: Although there weren't too many pony tails but mine was the longest.

Ribbit

 

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Mine is down to the middle of my back. I'm a rebel type but that should be obvious.

Ribbit

 

FYI - PCGS is like so many other businesses, closed today. So now I have to wait till Monday to find out where my coin is. :goof: With all of the visible attributes available to attribute from, there's no question as to what it is, unless you happen to be not only blind, but brain dead to boot so what it is isn't the problem, where it is has now become the problem, since it had to be in Dallas today and it wasn't (as far as I know).

Oh well! I have a ton of things to do to keep me bizy this weekend and I won't worry about it until Monday at 11 AM my time and then I will call and probably get disgusted that it's still in California and not anywhere near out the door, so I will deal with that then and enjoy my weekend for now.

Have a fun weekend everyone and may it not rain on your parade.

Ribbit

 

I guess I may be blind and brain dead, but I am still dubious. Oh well I have been called worse!

 

I haven't definitively crowned it a 37.4 yet either (Though I am leaning that way) so I must be one of the blind and brain dead as well. (Since I'm leaning that way does that mean my sight is getting better or is my brain getting better? Up to the Moron level. )

 

Someone mentioned a 39.2-ee tonight and it was close enough I went to Office Depot and spent a nice chunk of change on transparency paper and printed out everything on it, then used my paper version as a backdrop and it's confirmed, it's a 1787 39.2-ee.

Darnit!

I think I know why I didn't look at the 39's, because they are the AUCTOBI variety and they don't pop up too much, so I don't see them too often to have them drilled into the brain, like other varieties, but I did find out that the 37.4 & 39.2 obverses only have slight differences and the ee & RR reverses also only have slight differences so there's a good chance there's an attributed 39.2-ee out there that is actually a 37.4-RR.

Ribbit

 

Ps: Here's the 39.2-ee on CoinFacts:

http://coinfacts.com/colonial_coins...oppers/1787_ct_copper_miller_39.02_ee.jpg.htm

Ribbit

 

H.T, I am a bit confused now: are we talking about two coins: one which you have now confimed as 39.1, and the other on its way to PCGS/Heritage which is a 37.4-RR?

The suspense is killing me.

 

Now that is a match. There were too many differences to explain away with wear and die state. I was pretty sure from the start that the obverse and reverse attributions were wrong, but it was obvious that idea was not being warmly accepted! One thing about Connecticuts, you gotta nitpick the details, that is where the attribution lies!

 

Well I guess being blind and brain dead isn't too bad after all.

 

They are the same coin. What I thought was a 37.4- RR is actually a 39.2-ee and they are two that have been confused before but I never noriced, in all my attributing, that either looked the same but now I am building an overlay library and once it's complete, then I will start comparing varieties to see exactly what the differences are and which ones are extremely close to another one, so I can get better at attributing and hopefully not misattribute another one again. :goofer:

There's one more thing we've figured out, don't be doing it at the C4 Convention. With everything we do there and the long days, we are brain dead and it's so easy to miss something.

Nope! I should have gone and picked up the transparency film when I got back but I didn't realize they made it for ink jet printers and Friday night I googled it and saw they did and ran and picked some up and with transparencies, I could ID it exactly and it fits perfectly with the 39.2-ee but has slight problems with the 37.4-RR but I couldn't see those problems with paper overlays, plus, I didn't catch one big one - the angle of the arm. I should have seen that one but it was so close, I needed to draw a line to actually see it was slightly off and I didn't do that and that was a big mistake. :goofer:

I learned a lot from this mistake so hopefully, I will never make it again. But it was fun, nonetheless. And feel free to call me brain dead, I was. :goofer:

Ribbit

 

Does this mean our fine amphibian friend needs to change his handle to "Brain Dead and Blind Toad"?

Sorry to hear of your disappointment. Live and learn....Mike

 

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