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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bone Head, post: 373111, member: 14057&quot;]Hey Speedy, Been thinking,(gets me in trouble), --Maybe it didn&#039;t show up well on the photo, but the faint 39 underneath is visible.Including the tail of the 9 under the 0, which I mixed up. And the 40 is obviously doubled, an indication of hand stamping.</p><p>Plus , the 1939 OBV was unchanged But the production change in early1939 to the NEW (rev of 40) master die, hubs working dies Etc.could easily have affected the production numbers of the 1939 obverse dies. So I think, (in trouble again?), its likely that the coin in question was produced from a reworked &#039;39 die, not a hub, and then date was punched over the abraided 39 in the working die, possibly a used proof die. Whew! that could be confusing.If the 40 was changed on the master die then there would many, many of those coins w/ doubled 4.&nbsp; I suspect someone would have noticed and listed it. I just checked several other &#039;40-Ss and they do not have the 4 dbld. Any one here in the die variety forum have any more info, or thoughts?..........Bone Head[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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