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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2165229, member: 4781&quot;]Laser etching can be used to engrave dies, but it is not optimal for designs that have subtle changes in relief height. It also leaves a slightly rough texture on the die face which must be polished and/or sanded out. And that will leave tell-tale signs. The coin shown appears to me to have been struck from dies that were manufactured in one of the traditional counterfeiting methods such as making a wax mold from a genuine coin and then using a &quot;lost wax&quot; technique to cast a false die. The question is how was the date changed. It is possible that the original model coin had the last digit effaced prior to making the mold, and then a &quot;1&quot; was engraved into the blank space on the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I notice on this coin is the rounded-off details in the wreath, which is a typical artifact of transfer dies (as in every subsequent generation of a photocopy is degraded in quality).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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