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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2379846, member: 66&quot;]The 1870 is definitely a repunched date.&nbsp; The 1856 looks more like MD.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Longacre doubling would not be on the date.&nbsp; Longacre doubling comes for the creation of the dies and the date is punched in as part of a separate process.&nbsp; From the full images I can see significant die clashing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Valentine was the standard reference, published in 1931.&nbsp; For the pre-seated coins Federal US half dimes published around 1984(?) was much better.&nbsp; For the seated half dimes Al Blythe&#039;s book is better but not great.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t read Flynn&#039;s book.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes they can be found.&nbsp; For example from 1931 to 1989 there was only one variety of 1873-S.&nbsp; Then I discovered the V-2 variety, and since then a third variety of 73-S has been found.&nbsp; And that is just for the one year and mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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