1923 KGV Nickel Near 3 Far 3 5 Cent -- New Variety?

This reminds me of the 1929 one cent - the high 9 and low 9 and somewhere in between.

Dteam

I read the posts on 5centscanada this weekend. It's interesting that on the francophone site this variety (or should I say varieties) has/have been discussed on and off for the past few years.

numidan really did give us a Full House of 4 different positions for the 3 to think about. For me this makes me want to better understand the use of hubs and dies in the 1920s.

Specifically, when did the date get punched/engraved? On individual working dies - then there are probably a ton of different positions of the 3? Or more likely on the Master die? But does it make sense that 4+ master dies were needed for 1923? I have no clue to how many working hubs could be made from a master die and how many working die can be made from each working hub.

A NASA saying I heard once was "The harder you look, the more you'll find." I wonder if someone looks harder at the 4s of 1924 or the last 2 of 1922 whether we'll see other date varieties like 1923 looks like it has.

If we forget about the rotation and we focus on the near 3 from the rim, there's the difference on those two pictures. I think It's more than a micro difference. It's easy to detect without a magnifying glass !