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9-T is my best effort, but confidence is not very high. The Ornament looks like LEU, which narrows it down to Obv. 8 or 9. I1 does not look high, so that yields Obv 9. Since I can't read the WE ARE O… (View Post)

I agree, die cracks are the best die marker for 3CN. 3CN is a relatively modern series with no mint mark, so the primary marker on an undamaged die is only the date position (and sometimes some hub d… (View Post)

The denticle count is used for capped bust half dimes in the classic Logan-McCloskey book. I have used it to attribute some low grade half dimes where some of the normal die markers were not visible. (View Post)

This is the BF-3 date position. There are relatively few known, because it is a more recent discovery, after the first version of the attribution guide was published. So not that many people checked … (View Post)

I updated Dennis Rynes' 1983 attribution table to add the 4 newer die pairs and sort it by the 15 PCGS Registry set types. I left out the 4 "New Haven Restrike" items from the Registry set,… (View Post)