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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 167425, member: 5454&quot;]A worker had to hand punch the die with the letter of the mint.&nbsp; Sometimes they filled in the letter and punched the die again.&nbsp; Or they changed the letter when the die was shipped to another mint.</p><p>Well sometimes the punch bounced when striking the hard metal surface of the die.</p><p>So you get a double impression, or doubling of the mintmark.</p><p>I&#039;m told that after 1990 they no longer hand punched dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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