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<p>[QUOTE="Dawnno, post: 581943, member: 10171"]dimensions: short answer, no. longer answer: personal correspondence with archeologists who have seen 'one' (literally) is that band tags are somewhat smaller than my dimensions, guessing by about 25%, btw 25 and 50 cent piece-ish. </p><p><br /></p><p>more for thirsty historians: the brass prototype blanks of 1888 (to institutionalize the Indian). <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5964876" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5964876" rel="nofollow">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5964876</a></p><p><br /></p><p>re: "reverse".... Obverse: corresponding to something else as its opposite or counterpart. just a linguistic choice. But I did learn by looking up the definition today that in coins, obverse is the principal design side, i.e. "heads" not "tails". I agree that I would call D 35 the obverse side then. [edited out 'not' from original, b/c it's a double negative, in error][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dawnno, post: 581943, member: 10171"]dimensions: short answer, no. longer answer: personal correspondence with archeologists who have seen 'one' (literally) is that band tags are somewhat smaller than my dimensions, guessing by about 25%, btw 25 and 50 cent piece-ish. more for thirsty historians: the brass prototype blanks of 1888 (to institutionalize the Indian). [URL]https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5964876[/URL] re: "reverse".... Obverse: corresponding to something else as its opposite or counterpart. just a linguistic choice. But I did learn by looking up the definition today that in coins, obverse is the principal design side, i.e. "heads" not "tails". I agree that I would call D 35 the obverse side then. [edited out 'not' from original, b/c it's a double negative, in error][/QUOTE]
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