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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26142216, member: 101855&quot;]The switch from the lettered edge to the plain edge was during the last week of 1795. The lettered edge ‘95s were struck from October to late December. The plain edge coins were struck into the first three months of 1796. Although the law said a coin was supposed to bear the year it was struck, dies were expensive. The mint didn’t discard them just because the year had changed. Sometimes the mint made the dies into over dates, but that often reduced the useful life of the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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