Here's One You Don't See Too Often...

I would like to make a coment, if I may. In another forum, this has been discussed, and the information that came out was that the first three digits of the date are firm, while the last is solo. It is placed after the date has changed to a new year. I believe this whole thing came out of this operation. I don't know when "hand-punching has been terminated in the Canadian coinage, but in the US,the last date for cents, is 1989. 1990 is the first year in which all the date is a part of the working hum, and thence the working dies. (No more RPM's) Getting back to this coin, the difference in the positioning, and location, will make a "near", "far", "tilted", or any combinaation, as we have seen. I have mentioned the "lines", in the Catalog and the way they are used to show information, re positioning, etc, and the fact that they leave an "empty" feeling, because they don't use a solid base as a reference, which can be depended upon for every instance, such as this. There is another "reference point" that is used, and had the same weakness. That is the "to", "at", and "between". There is too uch variation to be reliable, (altho it has been "accepted"), it is very confusing. I have to agree with KurtS, and the others as well, because each have a valid point. The length of the vertical portion of the "6" can, and will be affected, (in the mint),by any accumulation of "garbage in the die, and, "post mint", by the integrety of the individual who might have a need to "make some changes" to the coin for personal gain. The above is offered as MHO, and you may draw your own conclusions. Please excuse the spelling errors, altho I am a very good speller, a "typist" I am not!
Dick