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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6332740, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m not sure I understand your question correctly, but if I do, they certainly apply to both sides of a coin. Two coins with identically-designed obverses but completely different reverse designs are always considered to be different types. But I don&#039;t think there are generally-accepted &quot;rules,&quot; or a standard definition, of how different one design has to be from another to constitute a different or new type or variation or even sub-type. Some people are lumpers, some are splitters! I think most people agree that two identical coins are different varieties if one has a left-facing bust and the other has a right-facing bust. Or one is bareheaded and the other laureate. But I don&#039;t think everyone agrees on whether they should be classified as different varieties if one has the obverse bust draped, and the other is draped and cuirassed. Or one is completely beardless, and the other has a mustache or a neckbeard or hair along the jawline. It can be difficult or impossible to tell if differences like that are the product of the mint administration&#039;s intention to create a new variation, or simply reflect the whims of two different engravers in the same mint in creating dies for what&#039;s supposed to be the same type. Never mind differences in the same type among different mints. The same is true of differences on the reverse. And all of this applies to slight differences in the legends as well. (For example, an abbreviated vs. an unabbreviated word in two otherwise identical legends.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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