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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1589839, member: 66&quot;]It can&#039;t be an upside down 9.&nbsp; The dates on these coins was punched into the dies using a one piece four digit logotype punch.&nbsp; In order to have an upside down digit the entire punch and therefore all four digits would have to be upside down.&nbsp; (This did happen on occasion.&nbsp; The 1844/81 and 1851/81 large cents are actually examples of the date being punched in upside down and then punched in correctly.&nbsp; The &quot;81&quot; is actually the upside down 18.&nbsp; There is also the 1858 over inverted date half dime.&nbsp; There may be others.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Before 1840 you could have an individual number punched in upside down because they used separate digit punches.&nbsp; In 1840 the used separate punches, experimented with two digit punches, and finally adopted the four digit punch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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