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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KurtS, post: 2259705, member: 11786&quot;]The 8/9 on this overdate is pretty dramatic--it&#039;s an easy one to spot even in online pictures.&nbsp; While this is described as an 1901/801, this coin wasn&#039;t struck before 1869. Since no repunching is visible on the last two digits, I think they had some unused dies from the prior century with only &quot;18&quot; on them. So they polished off <i>some </i>of the &quot;8&quot;, and repunched it with a &quot;9&quot;. Then they added the last two digits. There are at least 2 different 9/8 dies for this year: one is called &quot;near 1&quot;, the other is &quot;far 1&quot;. I&#039;m unsure which this is, but I suspect it&#039;s the &quot;far&quot; type.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is copper, so it doesn&#039;t take much to ding it up, even in better grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5687/21851464654_4d86aff9d1_b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Krause gives this variety a small premium. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/605/22485176431_2bd8beca61_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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