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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 723331, member: 66&quot;]Yes Philadelphia did make the dies for the branch mints but at that time the dates were still being added to the individual dies by hand with a four digit logotype punch.&nbsp; The mint had been having troubles with that style of 2 since at least 1882 (Possibly even 62 and 72) and coins of 82, 92, and 02 can all be found with the 2 filled in like that.&nbsp; Since this same type of &quot;filled 2&quot; appears across many years and different sizes of dates, I would be more inclined to attribute the damage to chipping of the dies than damage to the punch.&nbsp; Especially since these same dates also come with clearly formed 2&#039;s which would mean both good and bad date punches for the same year.&nbsp; (You can&#039;t damage a date punch and create the filled 2, the punch would have to be created from a damaged matrix.&nbsp; And since over the years different sizes of date have the same problem that would mean several damaged and good date matrixes for creating punches.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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