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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 2073018, member: 24633"]As a rule, when the branch mint receives their quota of dies, they will stamp them with the appropriate mintmark. Every once in a while, it happens that a particular branch mint will run short of dies and have to borrow some from one of the other branches. Before stamping the die with the correct mintmark, they are supposed to polish out the previous mintmark. This isn't always done perfectly and the underlying mintmark may still show through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 2073018, member: 24633"]As a rule, when the branch mint receives their quota of dies, they will stamp them with the appropriate mintmark. Every once in a while, it happens that a particular branch mint will run short of dies and have to borrow some from one of the other branches. Before stamping the die with the correct mintmark, they are supposed to polish out the previous mintmark. This isn't always done perfectly and the underlying mintmark may still show through. Chris[/QUOTE]
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