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<p>[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 171554, member: 1242"]satootoko,</p><p><br /></p><p>Not at all, when you consider that all of the Dies were and still are produced at the Philadelphia Mint and that the Master Dies that created the 1942/1-D Type Overdates would have been used to produce many Working Hub Dies! In other words, one Master Die with the incorrect (1941) Date was used to produce one or more Working Hubs, this or these Working Hub(s) were then removed and annealed and then replaced for a second pressing using a Master Die with the correct (1942) Date (this is double hubbing or called Design Hub Doubling). It is a very highly likely scenario, that one or more double hubbed Working Hub Dies were used to make Working Dies. Although the proof that one or more of these Working Dies with the overdate were shipped to the Denver Mint is well known, it is quite possible that one or more of these Working Dies were kept at the Philadelphia Mint for their use. Also, it is quite possible that one or more of these Working Dies with the overdate, may have been shipped to the San Francisco Mint. This was the case with at least two of the 1914/3-P, 1914/3-D and 1914/3-S Buffalo Nickels that were shipped to these Mints as two of them (can't remember which two) have the exact same overdate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The link below is to the Coin Facts site with infomation about the 1914/3 Buffalo Nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/Nickels/buffalo_nickels/1914d_buffalo_nickel.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/Nickels/buffalo_nickels/1914d_buffalo_nickel.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/Nickels/buffalo_nickels/1914d_buffalo_nickel.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="huntsman53, post: 171554, member: 1242"]satootoko, Not at all, when you consider that all of the Dies were and still are produced at the Philadelphia Mint and that the Master Dies that created the 1942/1-D Type Overdates would have been used to produce many Working Hub Dies! In other words, one Master Die with the incorrect (1941) Date was used to produce one or more Working Hubs, this or these Working Hub(s) were then removed and annealed and then replaced for a second pressing using a Master Die with the correct (1942) Date (this is double hubbing or called Design Hub Doubling). It is a very highly likely scenario, that one or more double hubbed Working Hub Dies were used to make Working Dies. Although the proof that one or more of these Working Dies with the overdate were shipped to the Denver Mint is well known, it is quite possible that one or more of these Working Dies were kept at the Philadelphia Mint for their use. Also, it is quite possible that one or more of these Working Dies with the overdate, may have been shipped to the San Francisco Mint. This was the case with at least two of the 1914/3-P, 1914/3-D and 1914/3-S Buffalo Nickels that were shipped to these Mints as two of them (can't remember which two) have the exact same overdate. The link below is to the Coin Facts site with infomation about the 1914/3 Buffalo Nickels. [url]http://www.coinfacts.com/Nickels/buffalo_nickels/1914d_buffalo_nickel.htm[/url] Frank[/QUOTE]
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