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Message:: [QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2303686, member: 1892"]To elaborate, that's because the actual process which created the 1942/1's was a hubbing process, not a date punching process. The hubs already had the dates on them, and a 1941 die got deliberately hubbed a second time for use in 1942. They got the operation almost perfect - nothing resembling this kind of doubling anywhere else on the die - but the slight changes in the date betrayed them. And when you think about it for a moment, the changes seem odd at first. "1942" is a longer date than "1941," yet the 4 in 1942 was pushed out farther; the underlying 4 is left of the new one. The only way they fit a 2 in there at all was to also raise the last two digits; at the lower level of 1941 a 2 would have been unacceptably close to the rim however tight you pushed the 4. They also made the 4 a little longer for 1942; the 1941 4 is noticeably narrower and would have looked odd between the two round numbers flanking it. It ends up odd because, as precisely as we like to use numismatic language, the moment a DDO starts affecting the date only we begin calling it an Overdate anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]