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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 20210462, member: 104064&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if I understand - is there some question that they weren&#039;t minted in Denver? If you&#039;re asking about the die itself, I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any question that the die originated in Philadelphia. Denver had no die making capability until 1996 so they would not have been repunching the date. I&#039;m no expert in mint history, but to me it seems more likely that the overdate die was created in late 1917 or early 1918 when a mint worker was stuck on the previous year (sort of like when you write a check in January and put the wrong year). I don&#039;t know what it was like in 1918 but in the early 1900s the die destruction records for the previous year&#039;s dies were all in early January, and they seemed to be competent with accounting for all the previous year&#039;s dies. It seems unlikely that a 1917 obverse die would still be laying around in late 1918. Just speculation also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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