Empiracle Testing Of The 1888-O VAM-1g Vs. 31

I'm not sure what the argument is here. VAMworld proves the dates are in different positions, and there is no argument that they're not different dies.

Obviously I read that thread, since I posted in it.

He's an old hand at this, and said the wise thing: more research is needed. That's why I didn't argue his points, even though I could tell by eye the dates were different.

Not lateral position. Height. As I confirmed a moment ago in the Gimp. Of course, I did not shoot the images or measure the coins myself, and they're slightly different photographically. So, like him, don't take me for Gospel either.

I took the date blowups into the Gimp and played with rotation until I aligned them - separately, they're not parallel - and measured best I could with a grid imposed. Based on what information I am able to glean from these images, the date tilt is not even similar - there's more space between the second 8 and denticles than the 1 and denticles.

But this is not exact.