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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1539246, member: 66&quot;]Why overdate?&nbsp; Well for one thing the law DID require that the coins bear the date of the year they were struck.&nbsp; Overdating an unused non-hardened die would allow them to obey the law.&nbsp; The illegal action was using the prior dated die during the following year.&nbsp; By law they couldn&#039;t do that but they just couldn&#039;t justify abandoning a perfectly good, and expensive, die just because it had the wrong date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint also had a way to &quot;fudge&quot; the date problem.&nbsp; The mint operated on a fiscal year that ran from July to June, so when they would list the mintage of a coin struck during a particular &quot;year&quot;, those struck from July to Dec would have one date while those struck from Jan to June would have a different date.&nbsp; So the coins struck with the previous year dated die would still be struck during the &quot;proper&quot; fiscal year. The law calls for then to have the calendar year, but I can see them using the fiscal year accounting to try and hide it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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