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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2961255, member: 19250&quot;]First this is an RPD 001 cross reference: V-5 Breen 3039</p><p>#1 Valentine obv. Small date,medium spaced,all numerals show they have been twice punched,and the 5 looks as if had been made over from a 3.</p><p>Rev. Heavy lettering</p><p>1845 number of working dies...[ Is unknown]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Die markers none noted either obv./ rev.</p><p>Mintage 1,564,000 business strikes.&nbsp; &nbsp; proofs ?</p><p>There&#039;s no records of the number of proof coins struck in 1845</p><p>Nor is it from 1837- 1857</p><p>1858&nbsp;&nbsp; 300 proofs struck</p><p>1859&nbsp;&nbsp; 800</p><p>1860&nbsp;&nbsp; 1000</p><p>1861&nbsp; &nbsp; 1000</p><p>1862&nbsp; &nbsp; 550</p><p>Breen</p><p>3039:</p><p>1845 double date v-5</p><p>Often sold as 1845/3 but the extra fragments at 5 do not match the 3 of the 1843.</p><p>The extra curve at r.of5 shown on the Valentine plate has not been fou d on any survivor from these dies ; possibly foreign matter on plate coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Type lll obv. Used 1840- 1853 type ll&nbsp; reverse used 1840-1859</p><p>My reference shows between NGC &amp; PCGS only 12 half dimes have been certified as proofs...</p><p>Between 1843-1849 it is not known if proofs were sold entirely in sets or individually ,or both.</p><p>One complete set was struck each year for the mint cabinet. Most likely several complete sets were struck and a few coins for different denominations were left over and distributed.</p><p><br /></p><p>So once again we have a series where proofs were struck,&nbsp; Yet no records of how many, no record of number of die pairs, and most of all ...&quot;proof &quot; that the US mint has used proof dies before to strike MS coins after the fact.</p><p>I personally believe that you are most probability correct. That this specimen is either a proof strike circulated,or an MS coin nailed with fresh dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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