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Message:: [QUOTE="The Penny Lady®, post: 770687, member: 16948"]As the year comes to a close, I was thinking about what coins I was fortunate enough to acquire this past year and many were coins with interesting varieties.  Some of my favorite are bold Repunched (RPD's) and Misplaced dates (MPD's).  So, you may wonder what caused these neat varieties?  Kevin Flynn has written several books and articles on coin varieties.  Here is his explanation (paraphrased): A Misplaced date occurs when the date is fully or partially punched into the legend, devices, denticles, or any part of the field not normally associated with the general location of the date on the coin (see 1883 below).  A Repunched date occurs when one or more digits of the date were punched into the die sometimes in more than one area, which makes the digits of the date overlap or show as completely separate images. During the 1800's, the dates were punched into each working die by hand as a final step in the production.  If a mistake was made - such as the date wasn't punched hard enough or was punched at a tilt or upside down or even in the wrong place, or if the wrong size punch was used - the engraver might try to remove the old date with abrasives, or simply repunch the date over the first date. In the case of the 1865 Fancy 5 over Plain 5 (see photo below), the working die was first struck with a Fancy 5 date punch, then struck with a Plain 5 date punch.  The right base of the "1" in the Fancy 5 is twice the length of the Plain 5.  Also, if you look carefully, you can see the tip of the corner of the Fancy 5 under the Plain 5. Although I currently don't have any in my collection, Overdates are another really fascinating variety.  An overdate occurs when a coin contains dates of different years. This might have been punched intentionally for a number of reasons, including a shortage of metal to make dies, too many dies for a particular year, the working dies produced for one year might not have been used or may have been used very little, or on the second hubbing of a working die a new working hub with a different date was used. [<a href="http://www.bakercoins.net/learn/variety/rpd/index.html]" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bakercoins.net/learn/variety/rpd/index.html]" rel="nofollow">http://www.bakercoins.net/learn/variety/rpd/index.html]</a> What I find most appealing about repunched and misplaced dates are the ones that you can almost see with the naked eye - well, maybe way back when I had YOUNG eyes!  Here are some of my favorite repunched dates from my personal Indian cent collection.  <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1894-1894_PCGS_MS64_BN_S-1_Double_Date.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/900_1883_S-1_1-in-Pearls_TONED_PCGS_MS66.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1875_PCGS_MS64RB_S-3_RPD.jpg/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1875_PCGS_MS64RB_S-3_RPD.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />  <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1872-72_NGC_MS65_BN.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1869-69_NGC_MS65_RB.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1867-67_RPD_S-1_800pix.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1865_ANACS_MS64_RB_S-1_Pln_5-Fcy_5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://thepennylady.com/images/600_1859_ANACS_MS63_S-3_RPD.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> So, let's see some of your favorite RPD's, MPD's, and Overdates as well![/QUOTE]

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