What Is The Story Behind The 1812/1 Half Dollar?

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hoosiergator Valued Member 204 Posts	Posted 11/15/2016 2:36 pm What created this overdate to appear on 2 different set of obverse dies? Report this Post to the Staff

jdiablo30 Pillar of the Community United States 946 Posts	Posted 11/15/2016 4:24 pm More then likely a older die with a earlier date, back in the day they made due with what they had. Think alot of overdates are unused die from earlier years and they just punched a new number into it. Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 11/15/2016 4:38 pm Report this Post to the Staff
GR58 Bedrock of the Community United States 11951 Posts	Posted 11/15/2016 5:42 pm I often wondered ..if a overdate was from using a previous years die, and punching the current years date. Or from a guy punching the date on a new die set and oops Punching the wrong date and then correcting it. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 11/16/2016 10:21 am Quote: What created this overdate to appear on 2 different set of obverse dies? Simple answer is they had two leftover unhardened 1811 dies. Dies were often made in batches and used as needed. Look at the 1800 large cents, there are six different overdated obv dies and all of them were made in 1798. One of them even had the complete 1798 date punched into it. 1798 had a very high mintage (1.84 million, the first US coin to have a mintage over a million.) So dies were being made in large numbers. At the end of the year there were at least seven dies left over, two with full dates and five possibly six just dated 179. In 1799 one of the full dated dies was overdated, and probably one of the 179 dated dies had a 9 punched and used. But coinage in 1799 dropped to just a small number leaving all those other dies onhand at the start of 1800. Report this Post to the Staff
EarlyTurban Valued Member United States 383 Posts	Posted 11/19/2016 12:10 pm Same reason every 1802 (1802/1) and 1803 (1803/2) Half Eagle variety are overdates. The yet-to-be overdate dies were cut the preceding years, but weren't used during the year intended. The die cutters just stamped a "2" over the "1" in 1802 and a "3" over the "2" in 1803 and the overdates were born. ET Report this Post to the Staff
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