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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1433157, member: 66&quot;]The Mint would probably have records that could tell.&nbsp; You might be able to find out with a FOI request.&nbsp; I suspect it is a more recent one as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1968 dies were defaced with a welding torch. (I don&#039;t know when or if the law has changed but the die destruction requirements used to specify that the dies were to be defaced by &quot;fire and sledge&quot;.&nbsp; I would imagine it was done by heating to near melting point in the furnace and then hitting the die face with a sledge hammer while still red hot.&nbsp; The Olympic commemorative coin dies were defaced by cutting a X across the face, the state quarter&nbsp; and coin and die sets were defaced by completely grinding off the die face.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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