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Posted 04/14/2015 12:15 pm
I did look through a few pages of Heritage in reverse order by price but the coins and photos were so bad I quickly gave up. I did find a couple that were well worn, had the appearance of a depression, and still had some striations.
NGC Fine Details Obv Graffiti
ANACS G6 Weak VDB
Having spent years analyzing aerial imagery for a major online map provider, I'm reluctant to judge vertical displacement based on two-dimensional images, which are often deceiving (think photos of lunar craters that look like raised plateaus). And considering the popularity of this coin, I seem to find very little information on die varieties other than the 4 mint mark placements. Just looking through the high-grade Heritage examples, it seemed like #4 (low S) has two varieties, one having a faint line going from about a fourth of the way up the first 9 southeast to the upper tip of the lower serif on the S, which you can see faint evidence of on the OP coin, but maybe they all have it and it just doesn't show in some photos.
Well, it's been interesting but I'll probably never have one in hand anyway. Certainly you're probably right that there's more good fakes than we know about and some even in slabs. I was just struck by how many high grade examples I found within a short time that look very much like the OP coin.
Edit: I just found this.
http://www.procoins.com/images/1909svdb.pdf
Hmm - maybe?
NGC Fine Details Obv Graffiti
ANACS G6 Weak VDB
Having spent years analyzing aerial imagery for a major online map provider, I'm reluctant to judge vertical displacement based on two-dimensional images, which are often deceiving (think photos of lunar craters that look like raised plateaus). And considering the popularity of this coin, I seem to find very little information on die varieties other than the 4 mint mark placements. Just looking through the high-grade Heritage examples, it seemed like #4 (low S) has two varieties, one having a faint line going from about a fourth of the way up the first 9 southeast to the upper tip of the lower serif on the S, which you can see faint evidence of on the OP coin, but maybe they all have it and it just doesn't show in some photos.
Well, it's been interesting but I'll probably never have one in hand anyway. Certainly you're probably right that there's more good fakes than we know about and some even in slabs. I was just struck by how many high grade examples I found within a short time that look very much like the OP coin.
Edit: I just found this.
http://www.procoins.com/images/1909svdb.pdf
Quote:
One of the most unique characteristic of the #4 mintmark position is that in the late die states there is a
die chip in the upper loop of the B in Liberty
One of the most unique characteristic of the #4 mintmark position is that in the late die states there is a
die chip in the upper loop of the B in Liberty
Hmm - maybe?
Edited by kbbpll
04/14/2015 12:39 pm
04/14/2015 12:39 pm
