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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 8139116, member: 66"][ATTACH=full]1418744[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several differences in the hair curls between the two types. The most noticeable is the addition of an extra above the lowest wave/curl in the hair. The red arrow in the second image is pointing to it. It is clearly not present on the coin in your second post. The next most noticeable difference is in the curl below the hair ribbons. On the style 1 it sticks out to the left while on the style 2 it droops down. The third difference is the curl at the back of the neck. On style 1 it curls down in a clockwise fashion, on the style 2 it curls up and is open at the top. The third curl is only useful on better grade coins as it disappear early as the coin wears. The first curl mentioned tends to remain visible down to coins grading G-VG. For even lower grade coins the second curl mentioned become important as it's outline tends to remain visible down to coins grading fair or worse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 8139116, member: 66"][ATTACH=full]1418744[/ATTACH] There are several differences in the hair curls between the two types. The most noticeable is the addition of an extra above the lowest wave/curl in the hair. The red arrow in the second image is pointing to it. It is clearly not present on the coin in your second post. The next most noticeable difference is in the curl below the hair ribbons. On the style 1 it sticks out to the left while on the style 2 it droops down. The third difference is the curl at the back of the neck. On style 1 it curls down in a clockwise fashion, on the style 2 it curls up and is open at the top. The third curl is only useful on better grade coins as it disappear early as the coin wears. The first curl mentioned tends to remain visible down to coins grading G-VG. For even lower grade coins the second curl mentioned become important as it's outline tends to remain visible down to coins grading fair or worse.[/QUOTE]
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