I did not realize Switzerland had produced a modern overdate coin, so a big thanks to a friend for alerting me to this one! On this variety, I think it's pretty clear the whole date has been impressed over the old one--traces can be seen on every digit (arrows). But I'm unsure if the whole die was re-hubbed with the new date, or only the date was added. It would take a study of numerous coins to determine if the date position varied at all on the same year, which would suggest dies were dated individually. I may do that to satisfy my curiosity... One thing that struck me about this coin. For a mint that has produced such a consistently high-quality product, they weren't very good at removing the prior date. In fact, nearly all of the top of the 4 is visible! It's evident they tried to polish away the prior date, as the denticles are weaker underneath, but they stopped near the main design. This is the only overdate for this series, so perhaps it was an experiment at re-dating dies? From what I've seen, the Bern mint did not use dies until they failed, so perhaps they had many dies from prior years with some "life" left? More speculation on my part, but maybe the mint was dissatisfied with the result of this overdate, so they scrapped the idea entirely? One thing is certain, there are few (if any) other documented overdates in modern Switzerland. Some pictures of the coin: the overdate is very easy to see. I've called out places on every digit where doubling is seen: Aside from a few marks, the grade on this coin is pretty nice! It appears the obverse die is more worn than the reverse--you can see the metal flow lines on the die. This would be expected if a die were re-dated and used to strike more coins.
I'm going to start calling you the over-date king ... As for modern, I think that starts about 1965 ....
Hahaha...I guess my subjects are my overdate collection. Now, if I only could get them to pay my taxes! What I call "modern" is more like modern die making, ie using hubs to create dies versus hand-engraving whole dies individually. Overdates, re-engraving and blunders were plentiful until the usage of master dies/hubs became widespread. Only after modern methods were adopted and quality control tightened, do you see overdates that garner high premiums. Even so, there are a lot of modern overdates that are common or have low collector interest--and corresponding low premiums. This overdate is one of those--
What is the war II era like for over-dates and re-punched . I'm starting to look for things like this, for this era ..
There are several nice wartime US overdates--the 1942/1-P and 1942/1-D dimes, and the 1943/2-P nickel. I haven't cherrypicked any of those yet. I see RPDs on Europe coins, although I haven't spotted any overdates on occupation coinage yet. Here are some repunched dates on Norway 5 Øre from that era... Australia minted a 1933/1932 overdate penny--
I was pretty exceeded with this 1943, 50 cent piece from Canada. It turned out to be a new re-punch 3/3 .. I was told that coins from this era, only 20,000 coins were released to each bank. Which mean this re-punch could of been sent to one bank, and thats cool as hell.
That's a nice RPD! From what I understand, 50c coins had the last two digits punched into the die into the 50s--I'm unsure exactly when it stopped. You'll also see dates that touch or even overlap the hoof of the right....
Nice and strong over-date from the close ups. Also struck from a fairly well worn die. Interesting piece and I totally agree a surprise coming from this country at this time.
