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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AgCollector, post: 288879, member: 5928&quot;]I think you may be confused about how the mint makes dies- they stopped punching the dates by hand roughly around 1900.&nbsp; Until 1997, each die received multiple hub impressions to make sure the design was strong enough.&nbsp; If two of those impressions were made with hubs bearing a different date, say first 1941 and then 1942, then it would have the appearance of an overdate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You say </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>yet in 1942 there was no way to get a new date &quot;stamped&quot; over an existing one <i>except</i> through an additional hub impression with a hub bearing the new date.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the 1942/1 dime is listed at CONECA as a class three doubled die, with the designation &quot;1-O-III&quot;, which can be found here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.conecaonline.org/content/mercurydoubleddies.html#_1942" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.conecaonline.org/content/mercurydoubleddies.html#_1942" rel="nofollow">http://www.conecaonline.org/content/mercurydoubleddies.html#_1942</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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