Hi everyone, new member, but I'll be back as we
inherited lots of coins from my dad who was a professional auctioneer.
I came here looking for definitive answers on the small versus large beads, as we have a bag of them. I ended up taking some photos and discovered they seem to be the large bead version, despite a collector glancing at it and immediately stating they were small.
I enlarged some photos and marked them to highlight the difference, and the large bead version has the letter clocked so that the "I" is centered on the bottom edge of the bead, while the small bead version is centered slightly below the center of the bead. I like canuck888's method though, and the dots between the letters are 22 pixels in my larged photos, and the beads are 24 pixels. Below is a composite reference shot.

Edited by Altema
03/23/2017 8:46 pm