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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AWORDCREATED, post: 1765155, member: 52245&quot;]Many dies means hub variety at least.&nbsp; I went through a jar of 1973 cents.&nbsp; Findings:&nbsp; so far only the Denver MM has the bulge over in the left bays extending out of the monument.&nbsp; About 20% of the denvers show this feature in some easily recognizeable form.&nbsp; There is another population that has just the upper part of bay 2 raised to obviate that soffet feature ( or whatever that is called across the top of a bay).&nbsp; That must represent an early stage in the evolution of this variety.&nbsp;&nbsp; There must be many dies with this issue if my population of coins is a normal statistically represntative one.&nbsp; So the bulge part happened further back in the process perhaps on a working hub, or master die, or the master hub itself eventually pooped out which would explain why RDV-003 with those gynormous initials was used for only one year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Only the original ABE coin also has the surfboard, which must be some additional situation on one of the bulged coin dies. Then the surf board part becomes an independant anomoly on one of the many anomolus dies, and is much easier to attribute if that feature doesn&#039;t have to be tied to the buldge feature which is on many dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at your 73 D cents.&nbsp; I bet you all have some with the bulge, assuming you have a large enough population.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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