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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 769764, member: 6036&quot;]Yes, it is an overdate.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s Sheldon-281 (Breen-1), rarity 1. It bears no premium for rarity, but I must say it&#039;s quite a nice specimen. It has &quot;good honest wear&quot;, but a wonderful flan and nice surfaces. Not a cheap coin by any means. Very nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, it is not an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>In those days, it was quite a challenge making dies. It was ward work, they had poor working conditions and crummy quality die steel (and a shortage of it). For those reasons (and others), the mint was forced to squeeze as much life out of every die as possible. That included taking older dies (i.e. 1809) and overstamping a newer date (1810). This was &quot;standard operating procedure&quot;; non-optimal, but not an error.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congrats on a lovely little coin ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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