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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3192705, member: 112"]There used to be a website that listed all the design changes, for all US coins, from around 1900 on. But it's defunct now. However, I have a copy of it. If you'd like it, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it you.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, all design changes were intentional in a way, other times they were unintentional in another way, and sometimes it was both. Most of the time it was because the master hubs wore out and they simply had to make new ones. And when ya do that, well changes happen, sometimes by design and sometimes by accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line isn't why they happened, merely that they did. It's the same kind of thing as it is with grading coins, it doesn't matter how the marks, hairlines, wear, lack of eye appeal got there - it only matters that they ARE there ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3192705, member: 112"]There used to be a website that listed all the design changes, for all US coins, from around 1900 on. But it's defunct now. However, I have a copy of it. If you'd like it, send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it you. That said, all design changes were intentional in a way, other times they were unintentional in another way, and sometimes it was both. Most of the time it was because the master hubs wore out and they simply had to make new ones. And when ya do that, well changes happen, sometimes by design and sometimes by accident. The bottom line isn't why they happened, merely that they did. It's the same kind of thing as it is with grading coins, it doesn't matter how the marks, hairlines, wear, lack of eye appeal got there - it only matters that they ARE there ![/QUOTE]
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