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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3721268, member: 19165&quot;]Honestly, bureaucrats probably had little to do with it. The mint was a factory, and the die sinkers were craftsmen. They had a die, it had the wrong date, they tried to efface the date and punch in the new date. </p><p><br /></p><p>They had no idea that 150 years later some geek with a huge magnifier would examine every little mistake they ever made. They had no idea that someone with more money than sense would pay ridiculous amounts for their coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>They were literally just trying to make enough coins that the butcher could effectively sell his pigs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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