Variety Attribution: Obverse-All stars have sharp points. S7 is 1 mm. from L. Star 8 is only 1/2 mm.from Y, and Star 13 is 1/2 mm. from bust. Date is a close 7 3/4 mm. and high. 1 and 6 nearly touch curl and bust. Y has been recut, but at this stage is barely visible at lower left base of Y, if at all. Some hair and ribbon details may be weak due to the sinking of the die. There are usually several die cracks, at lower curl, along stars at left curving to hair wave at top of head, etc. (above example does not have these cracks with the exception of small cracks at stars one and three).
Reverse-O-120: 5 berries, only the two lowest ones below branch have stems. Lower right base of F missing. Point of leaf below I is just left of center. Star point attached to front of beak. AM close but do not touch. A2 well above fourth feather and far distant from third feather. Vertical die defect line from left corner of shield to scroll, another from right corner points to inner curve of wing. Most specimens show a die crack from top of A2 curving through M, another from edge above M.
O-120a: There is now a flake type die break that begins at top of stripe 4 to 5 and progressively enlarges, until it covers tops of stripes 2, 3, 4, 5, and part of 6. Another small break fills space between the two crossbars above stripe 1. The cracks through AM get much heavier, extend to ribbon and wing, with broken patches at end of ribbon and to right of A. Another crack from arrows across tail feathers to A3. Another fine one from leaf to base of RI. With beginning of the flake in stripes it is R4. With all of the full breaks described it is R5.
