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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 25265971, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;m not aware of any markers that would let you distinguish a dateless 1921 half, but I&#039;m really really far from an expert on the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I remember the previous silver-date-restoration thread, one member managed to make dates appear on dateless SLQs (including at least one 1923-S), but wasn&#039;t able to get a TPG to slab the restored coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The consensus seems to be that restoring dates on silver is <i>much</i> more difficult and less reliable than restoring them on cupronickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some TPGs will slab restored-date nickels as details coins. I think we may see an end to this practice in time, though, because a slight modification of the process might let you put <i>any</i> date onto a coin. I haven&#039;t seen reports of people doing this for profit, but that may well be because they&#039;re smart enough to keep quiet about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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