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Sorry to keep quoting from the other forum, but this guy's theory makes more sense - here's more from the same guy:
And, there is no reason to make a huge disfiguring mark on a perfectly usable working die. THe Mint had equipment to perform the contemporary equivalent of a Rockwell Hardness Test, where you smack the surface of a die with a hardened pointed tool and see how large a (tiny) hole it makes. Just leaves a tiny pimple on the coins then struck from that die.
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