I know what you mean...it's easy to read into a coin when you want to see something--especially with overdates.
That's interesting about the 1905 Centesimi, which perhaps corroborates that individual letters were re-engraved/repunched during this time.
A lot of marks in digits I simply attribute to die gouges, unless I've seen something before or it's a raised feature that clearly follows a digit's contour.
I think it's also been a great help to look at IHCs with Snow's guides in hand, and get a sense how RPDs look.
Here's an interesting similarity on a 1867 Finland 1 Markka, obviously from a time when letters were punched into the the die:

photo credit: Juhan M.
That's interesting about the 1905 Centesimi, which perhaps corroborates that individual letters were re-engraved/repunched during this time.
A lot of marks in digits I simply attribute to die gouges, unless I've seen something before or it's a raised feature that clearly follows a digit's contour.
I think it's also been a great help to look at IHCs with Snow's guides in hand, and get a sense how RPDs look.
Here's an interesting similarity on a 1867 Finland 1 Markka, obviously from a time when letters were punched into the the die:

photo credit: Juhan M.























