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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 2494109, member: 24544&quot;]Reverse style is the first give away, it does not have the right look in terms of design elements to be authentic.&nbsp; This is not a left brain, bullet point of what&#039;s wrong, diagnosis, it&#039;s a right brain subjective does not look right.&nbsp; Once you have looked at enough of these coins you will begin to understand when a design does not look correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other give away is the mushiness of the details, which is a dead give away that it&#039;s cast.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to collecting ancients I collected large cents by variety.&nbsp; I remember reading an essay by Breen about having to use both right brain and left brain pattern recognition for variety attribution.&nbsp; You can save a lot of time checking date position, and leaf position, and LIBERTY to hair position, if you begin your attribution with a right brain recognition of the style first to narrow down the possible varieties.&nbsp; It really changed my idea about the process of attribution, prior to that I was all left brain detail oriented, and often completely missed the stylistic differences.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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