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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1283092, member: 26302"]That is a fine workaround, except for one detail. You are assuming that the Overton number is correctly assigned. I know many people in ancient coins who do the same thing, yet again they are trusting the attrbutions are correct on the sites they are using.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I am just a proponent of owning the source of any attributions, with the best plates possible, so I can confirm the correctness of an attribution. I would think this is especially crucial with the tiny little variations US collectors use as "varieties" to make US collecting seem more expansive than it really is. I am not meaning that as a slight, its just why these tiny differences were labelled as different varieties to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1283092, member: 26302"]That is a fine workaround, except for one detail. You are assuming that the Overton number is correctly assigned. I know many people in ancient coins who do the same thing, yet again they are trusting the attrbutions are correct on the sites they are using. I guess I am just a proponent of owning the source of any attributions, with the best plates possible, so I can confirm the correctness of an attribution. I would think this is especially crucial with the tiny little variations US collectors use as "varieties" to make US collecting seem more expansive than it really is. I am not meaning that as a slight, its just why these tiny differences were labelled as different varieties to begin with. Chris[/QUOTE]
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