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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4400494, member: 66&quot;]Yes I believe that is exactly what he was saying, a lintmark impressed into the die during the hubbing process, which is why it is a variety.&nbsp; Every coin from that die would have that mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I find important are you pictures of the known specimens.&nbsp; The obv varies from a new sharp die to a heavily worn condition on.&nbsp; That would indicate that this obv die had&nbsp; a fairly&nbsp; normal die life run for a SMS die, it wasn&#039;t retired early so maybe 25 to 50,000 pieces made.&nbsp; So it should show up about 1 in every 50 to 100 sets examined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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