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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 491216, member: 6763&quot;]dave:</p><p>&nbsp;welcome to CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, sorry, but I do understand your logic, it just doesn&#039;t work here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lets assume that you are correct, that it is an overdate, in those days of the mint, no biggie. (to collectors it is a biggie, but the mint just re-made the die and moved on.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, it is were an overdate, the coins would have been struck, and many thousands would have been produced. (Exactly how many in a die life is beyond my thought processes right now.)</p><p><br /></p><p>With an overdate this obvious, the variety would have been located with a short time of 1857.&nbsp; So, sorry, no chance.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, to keep you interested, a little story:</p><p><br /></p><p>During the late 1970&#039;s I had found an unusual war nickel.&nbsp; I showed it to many dealers on LI at the time and they told me that I was wrong, there was no overdate listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make a long story short: I left collecting to return to college, years later I found out that they had (in the interim) &#039;discovered&#039; a new overdate: the 1943/2 war nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, new finds can be found, but they will (most likely) be more subtle.</p><p><br /></p><p>so, good luck and keep searching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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