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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KurtS, post: 2251574, member: 11786&quot;]The handwork evident on mid-1800s US coins is really interesting--and it&#039;s similar on many European coins from the period. Overall, it depends a lot on mint practices which part of the date was on the hub and transferred to the dies. Sweden went to a full date hubbed into the dies after 1916; at least I haven&#039;t seen any overdates or repunched dates later. Norway kept the practice of adding the last two digits to the dies into the late 50s, perhaps even into the early 60s. I base this on studying old hubs at Norway&#039;s Kongsberg mint. Canada was adding the last two digits on some dies into the 50s. In the US, dating dies individually ended around 1909.&nbsp; Of course, the concept of overdates gets more complicated when some mints re-dated their dies by using a newer hub. Such is the case for US overdates after 1909, like the spectacular 1942/1941-P 10c, the 1918/7-D nickel, or the 1918/7-S quarter--I&#039;m still looking for those (unattributed) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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