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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;diburning, post: 4515200, member: 70451&quot;]I&#039;ve searched and searched to learn more about mint marks, but all I found was history on how and why the mint marks came to be assigned, but not on how they were applied.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that there are some errors from the middle of the century involving repunched mint marks (such as D over S, or D over D, or D over horizontal D, etc) and I was wondering if mint marks were, back then, punched after the coins have been struck, and if so, were they punched with a machine? Or were they hand punched?</p><p><br /></p><p>Are mint marks still punched that way these days? Or are the mint marks now engraved onto the dies themselves?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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