Photoshop work in the Red Book?

vega1

It appears that the authors used the exact same picture for the Variety 4 and Variety 5 "w/ Arrows" seated halfs on pages 172 and 173 of the latest Red Book. The toning on the two coins is identical. Looks like they just added arrows to the picture (or removed them?). Seems kind of strange, they couldn't find two good pictures to use?

airplanenut

I don't have a Red Book with me, or own the latest edition, for that matter, but it is possible that the two coins came from the same collection... if one person stored them, they could have been in identical envelopes, a cabinet, or album holes, and the conditions (heat, humidtiy, etc. would have been identical). That would have produced nearly identical toning.

Jeremy

wam98

Jeremy, I looked at both coins that vega1 is talking about and there isn't any difference in the coins other than the arrows missing.

itsnotjustme

In the 2001 edition, they are different. And the no arrows is a CC mint mark.

Aethelred

They are the same coin!