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<p>[QUOTE="Hommer, post: 2276011, member: 73266"]That is exactly what ive always thought. Until I started studying some overdate coins. I wanted to do a type set, but really didn't want to put together a set of coins that would just be compared to all the other sets collectors put together. I acquired an overdate coin that', I really liked so it just seemed cool to put a type set together using all overdates.</p><p>I started studying the coins and after a while thought, how can there be an overdate coin with the same date. Then I acquired the one I posted on another thread a couple days ago.</p><p>I'm not claiming the coin I posted is an overdate, only that while researching what I saw, I found that there are actually coins that are overdates of the same date. That coin was the 1960 large/small 0. The only way those coins were produced was by stamping of the working die with a different master. Doing further research also taught me that most of those type of overdates will show some signs of doubling of the devices somewhere on the coin, giving proof of this.</p><p>I'm not disputing what is said, just I have begun to look at these types alot different than before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hommer, post: 2276011, member: 73266"]That is exactly what ive always thought. Until I started studying some overdate coins. I wanted to do a type set, but really didn't want to put together a set of coins that would just be compared to all the other sets collectors put together. I acquired an overdate coin that', I really liked so it just seemed cool to put a type set together using all overdates. I started studying the coins and after a while thought, how can there be an overdate coin with the same date. Then I acquired the one I posted on another thread a couple days ago. I'm not claiming the coin I posted is an overdate, only that while researching what I saw, I found that there are actually coins that are overdates of the same date. That coin was the 1960 large/small 0. The only way those coins were produced was by stamping of the working die with a different master. Doing further research also taught me that most of those type of overdates will show some signs of doubling of the devices somewhere on the coin, giving proof of this. I'm not disputing what is said, just I have begun to look at these types alot different than before.[/QUOTE]
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