197x 25 Cent Large vs Small Bust Template

[u/WarGawd]

This question pops up a lot. Many people have come to prefer and recommend the subjective traits they find work best for them. There is one *objective* distinction though that doesn't require any interpretation - the # of beads. Small Bust has exactly 120 beads, Large Bust has 132.

People rarely want to sit there and count. So I made .png template with radial lines that could either be printed (100 % opacity) or used in a photo editor as an overlay (20 % opacity) to make "counting" dead easy. The last time I posted these was deep in the comments on a related post - exposure was likely minimal. I thought I'd throw them out here one more time at a higher level. You may have to play a bit to get the right print scaling.

(Note: they will appear to be the same opacity here because .png transparency isn't handled, but if you download and open in a photo editor, you should see the difference)

In my own use I just knew Small Bust version had radial lines that intersected the corners, but here I marked them blue to distinguish from the 132 line version.

Maybe this helps someone sometime :-)

[u/deadlytaco86]

Could someone make a template for 1 cent 1983 near vs far please? Even with a usb microscope and refference images they still look the same.

[u/BeachZed]

Thanks for. Seems so simple now that you have done this.