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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 2945861, member: 31533&quot;]Based on the last pic which &#039;clearly shows&#039; 3 5&#039;s as you put it is something (effect) I think you will be more than likely to see on many Philly (especially) dimes from the 1990s onward. The bottom-most 5, as it were (presuming you were correct to say there are three 5&#039;s, which I don&#039;t believe you are on this) is what I would say is 100% or near 100% the result of die deterioration and/or mechanical doubling; either way, I think that all things being equal from the number of dimes I&#039;ve handled as CRH (coin roll hunting) and change hunting (probably on the order of at least 5,000 $$ and possibly as much as 10,000 $$$ just on dimes) over the past 15 years, where I have first put money that needed to be spent on bills into buying coins to search and then either getting them into a bank via coin machines or using as purchase money for things like gas or trading them for dollars at various shops that needed change and was willing to &#039;buy&#039; my coins, that this is either fully die deterioration effects or a combination of die deterioration and mechanical doubling. The first and second (top most) iterations of the date and motto would be die deterioration for sure IMO. Again, based on the number of actual modern dimes I have handled in looking for silver and for a date and mm set of modern dimes from change and CRH in the highest grade I can obtain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically that sort of thing has been my hobby for around 15 years --- getting change and making my own set of uncirculated (when possible) or highest grade circulated coin I can get for the modern and lower denomination US coins. I (obviously) think you should pay attention to this &#039;opinion&#039; of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philly as a mint for their lower denominations has been really hard on their dies and they use them until they drop as far as putting an image on the coin blanks (except they don&#039;t seem to have a lot of retained cuds or large die breaks, so I presume they do pull them at some point or the dies are being made so that they are so stressed out without actually shattering).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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