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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 22005513, member: 104064"][USER=3926]@justafarmer[/USER] thanks, I suspect the same. The specific situation is the Cuba 1915 star peso "no dots" variety (NGC calls it No Periods). You may have read the recent BCCS article. I've found that there are two types of the No Dots variety, with some letters repunched on both the obverse and reverse, and some minuscule features seemingly polished off. This leads me to think that the repunching etc was done on a master die, or if there was only one working die to produce fakes, then directly on that die. However, the two types have different denticle counts. So even if they repunched and polished a master die, how did the denticle count change? There is a question as to whether this "variety" is actually a counterfeit. So it seems to be a lot of work to go through to change the number denticles when you're just sprucing up your hub/die/design. I suppose the rim could be blank on the die (whether master or working die), and then the denticles engraved into it. There do seem to be lathe marks in between the denticles in some images, which might be a clue. [ATTACH=full]1543983[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]