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A 1mm in each direction size difference should be immediately obvious if the stamps are side by side. A decent mm scale will also clearly show a 1mm difference, as long as it is not one of the plastic ones with measurement markings nearly a mm wide!
Invest in a good, metal metric ruler. Available on Amazon for $6-8 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=metric+ruler+ ...
Without the ruler, if you need a place to start, find a couple of copies dated by the cancel. The sets are basically 1953 - 1968 and 1968 on. Find one in each range and compare them. There's your reference copies.
Hope that helps.
Roy
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In addition stay away from paper ones!
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Thank you for the response. Tom
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I've been meaning to pick up a decent ruler with mm. I was thinking I would look at a plastic one thinking it would be better if transparent.
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Clear plastic rulers needn't be bad, you just need to pay attention what you are buying. Best might be a shop that caters to college and university students.
As for the Italian stamps, you don't really need a ruler unless they are all of the same sort, and you haven't got anything to compare ;-) The difference in image size is rather striking.
Martin
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Hi, I have been collecting over 55 years and have a fairly advanced collection and recently was given many old Italy stamps. In there were hundreds of the coin stamps that have a small and large version. The perfs are the same and it is so close size wise that I cannot tell if they are in the 673b-687 scott range or 998a-998w range. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom
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re: Italy Syracusean Coin
A 1mm in each direction size difference should be immediately obvious if the stamps are side by side. A decent mm scale will also clearly show a 1mm difference, as long as it is not one of the plastic ones with measurement markings nearly a mm wide!
Invest in a good, metal metric ruler. Available on Amazon for $6-8 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=metric+ruler+ ...
Without the ruler, if you need a place to start, find a couple of copies dated by the cancel. The sets are basically 1953 - 1968 and 1968 on. Find one in each range and compare them. There's your reference copies.
Hope that helps.
Roy
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re: Italy Syracusean Coin
In addition stay away from paper ones!
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Thank you for the response. Tom
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re: Italy Syracusean Coin
I've been meaning to pick up a decent ruler with mm. I was thinking I would look at a plastic one thinking it would be better if transparent.
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re: Italy Syracusean Coin
Clear plastic rulers needn't be bad, you just need to pay attention what you are buying. Best might be a shop that caters to college and university students.
As for the Italian stamps, you don't really need a ruler unless they are all of the same sort, and you haven't got anything to compare ;-) The difference in image size is rather striking.
Martin
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