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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jacnum7, post: 2164394, member: 72024&quot;]In the August 2007 issue of The Numismatist, the official publication of the <a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">American Numismatic Association</a>, collector Chris Pilliod, who is a metallurgist by profession, published the results of a scientific investigation into the cause of the extra leaves.&nbsp; The evidence he gathered, much of it through scanning electron microscopy, led him to conclude the &quot;error&quot; was done intentionally.&nbsp; The window of opportunity was the time between die hubbing and final heat treat, when the die metal is soft enough that someone can alter the design with a punch tool and hammer.&nbsp; High magnification revealed metal flow evidence consistent with theory, while eliminating other possible causes.&nbsp; We are still left to wonder why someone would do such a thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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