Some die scratches come and go. They are not always on all examples. Only on examples struck after they were polished on to the die. Other factors enter in. Replacement of reverse die. Lines in fields eventually flatten and disappear on later examples. The die scratches may remain next to or through devices a lot longer. Still waiting on an image with the tops of the digits showing, so I can overlay it with the one from coppercoins.
Never mind. I used the bottoms of both images and made them level, but had to guess at the width till the date overlapped. It is a match. When getting the two images level, the differences of locations made it look closer. A slight rotation can throw off the visual thing for me.

Edited by coop
03/18/2009 5:49 pm