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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3355489, member: 10461&quot;]Other countries have overstruck coins on earlier coins, but it is not something that has happened very much at the US Mint.&nbsp; (<a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2014/07/coin-world-lincoln-cent-roosevelt-dime-overstruck-double-denomination-error-baltimore-expo-coin-collecting-numismatics.all.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2014/07/coin-world-lincoln-cent-roosevelt-dime-overstruck-double-denomination-error-baltimore-expo-coin-collecting-numismatics.all.html" rel="nofollow">It <i>does</i> happen</a>, but not very often.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And usually the host coin (the undertype) is not &quot;much, much&quot; older, but relatively close (within 20 years or so, and usually less) to the new, overstruck type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a 1795 copper 5-reis coin from the Portuguese Azores which was overstruck on an earlier coin (a 1776 3-reis piece, in this case).&nbsp; You can see traces of the original host coin (the undertype).&nbsp; This is usually the case with overstruck pieces.&nbsp; Some ghostly details of the undertype will appear.</p><p><br /></p><p>See all the weird little things going on, here, and how weird the lettering and other features look?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/oa/a32m3da7hac6.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/oa/a32m3da7hac6.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/oa/a32m3da7hac6.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/42/ioh6lg189582.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/42/ioh6lg189582.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/42/ioh6lg189582.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/09/dqw99l1j36t7.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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