Posted 07/08/2012 01:07 am
While there are many varieties, for the 78 series...Which include the 8tail feathers
and the seven tail feathers, and the 7 over 8 tail feathers...AS noted above...
one must separate the type one has...IT IS, one of three types for 1878...
if it has eight tail feathers...it is NOT......any thing but an 8TF design..
Or variety....IT IS, with the seven tail feather design....Where there was a DIE design
change, wear/as..there was a change in the dies themselves...where the dies were re-tooled OVER
the old 8 tailed feather desing and changed to 7 feathers...
THE RESULT IS
found under close inspection of the tail feathers on the reverse of the coin...
ONE must remember also that there are 7/8 varieties which have ZERO additionnal feathers below the 7 tail features
of the new design which was the design that went into production
until its final major reverse change in 1921..
ASA for the 1878 series which has the 7 over 8 tailed feathers,
impressions of the OLD 8 tail design, impressions are found under the tail feathers them selves
AND DOUBLING features known to the problems of the minting process in 1878...
together with the "seen or unseen" under the tail feathers issues..
OFF the top of my head, 7/8 tail varieties range between VAM, 30 and the VAM 44 series....
then they are specifically a 7 tail series which goes into the 240 VAM of numbered varieties...
While I am not attempting to disect you coin with little photos, I am simply trying to
inform you of the MANY die varieties, that abound for 1878..I hope this helps..G
and the seven tail feathers, and the 7 over 8 tail feathers...AS noted above...
one must separate the type one has...IT IS, one of three types for 1878...
if it has eight tail feathers...it is NOT......any thing but an 8TF design..
Or variety....IT IS, with the seven tail feather design....Where there was a DIE design
change, wear/as..there was a change in the dies themselves...where the dies were re-tooled OVER
the old 8 tailed feather desing and changed to 7 feathers...
THE RESULT IS
found under close inspection of the tail feathers on the reverse of the coin...
ONE must remember also that there are 7/8 varieties which have ZERO additionnal feathers below the 7 tail features
of the new design which was the design that went into production
until its final major reverse change in 1921..
ASA for the 1878 series which has the 7 over 8 tailed feathers,
impressions of the OLD 8 tail design, impressions are found under the tail feathers them selves
AND DOUBLING features known to the problems of the minting process in 1878...
together with the "seen or unseen" under the tail feathers issues..
OFF the top of my head, 7/8 tail varieties range between VAM, 30 and the VAM 44 series....
then they are specifically a 7 tail series which goes into the 240 VAM of numbered varieties...
While I am not attempting to disect you coin with little photos, I am simply trying to
inform you of the MANY die varieties, that abound for 1878..I hope this helps..G
