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Posted 05/19/2012 09:21 am
To those who thanked me for the tip - you're welcome. I've posted it here before, but you know how that goes. Once a post makes it to the second page, it rarely ever comes up again.
Anyhow, this discovery was a matter of recognizing the fact that the two designs are just that - two completely different designs. If they changed the font on the A and M causing them to be closer together, then they had to have made changes to the remainder of the font around the coin. I found a few minor differences but the spacing of STATES was by far the most obvious of all the changes made besides the spacing of the A and M. Just think - if the part about the A and M wasn't the first part discovered about the differences, we could easily be calling these "lop-sided STATES" and "evenly spaced STATES" cents. Of course they could also have easily been called the "close initials" and "far initials" cents.
Anyhow, this discovery was a matter of recognizing the fact that the two designs are just that - two completely different designs. If they changed the font on the A and M causing them to be closer together, then they had to have made changes to the remainder of the font around the coin. I found a few minor differences but the spacing of STATES was by far the most obvious of all the changes made besides the spacing of the A and M. Just think - if the part about the A and M wasn't the first part discovered about the differences, we could easily be calling these "lop-sided STATES" and "evenly spaced STATES" cents. Of course they could also have easily been called the "close initials" and "far initials" cents.
