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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3455994, member: 66&quot;]Now that We have the Heritage Archives I really should repeat some research I did on these years ago.&nbsp; I was curious if the coins were really hand punched or if they punched the letters into a hub and used it to create a die with raised letters.&nbsp; I went through my collection of auction catalogs to locate as many different specimens as I could find to compare the placement of the letters.&nbsp; Unfortunately my sample size was rather small, I only turned up 8 unique specimens, but I was not able to find a difference in the placement of the letters.&nbsp; If they were hand punched I would have expected them to &quot;wander&quot; around a bit like mintmarks do.&nbsp; I should really try this now with the Heritage archive because I could probably mind more different pieces, and now with image overlays determining position changes would also be a lot easier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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