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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26062453, member: 104064&quot;]Yeah, the 9 and the 1s don&#039;t &quot;precisely match&quot; either. So the contention is that not only were these struck in a clandestine operation, but they hubbed a die for it in secret too, and then engraved the date? My recollection is that annealing, hubbing, annealing, hubbing, hardening was a multi-day process. All in secret? Why bother? It&#039;s well documented that 1913 Liberty Head dies <i>already existed</i>. I guess I&#039;ll have to find a copy of Million Dollar Nickels. The notion that they not only coined them in secret, they also made their own 1913 die in secret, seems rather silly when we know for a fact that many 1913 dies already existed, and stayed around at least through Feb 24 1913 when deliveries of the new design began. I try to look at this stuff logically and not through the lens of having a story to perpetuate. At least 17 pattern Buffaloes were struck and were supposed to be destroyed, but nobody squawks about how some of those escaped the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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