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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 8432596, member: 13813&quot;]Roger W. Burdette, who has studied the minting process extensively, says that in the late 19th Century the Mint would alter a die by first filling in the number or letter with bits of untempered steel, tamping it down, smoothing it off, and then punching in&nbsp; the new number or letter, smoothing off around it, and hardening the entire die. I yield to his expertise.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1901/0-S $5 overdate has always looked to me as though a part of a filling had chipped out of a die. Something similar may have happened on the 1882-O/S dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>TD[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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