Winged Liberty Head dime celebrates 100th anniversary milestone.Read the rest of this feature on the Winged Liberty Head dime's 100th anniversary: It didn’t take long in the 1940s for eagle-eyed collectors to identify the anomalies. The 1942/1-D dime is listed in Coin Values for $650, $2,500 and $4,750 in the same grades. Genuine 1942/1 dimes are listed in Coin World’s Coin Values at $650 in Extremely Fine 40, $2,500 in Mint State 60 and $4,500 in MS-63. (Both overdates are also represented by alterations, genuine 19-D dimes that have been altered by having metal added or moved around from manipulated date digits, in attempts to fool collectors.) “The result was a pair of overdate dies, one employed at Philadelphia, the other shipped west to Denver,” according to Lange. On at least two occasions, a working hub dated 1941 was used for a die’s first impression and one dated 1942 for the second impression. In the case of the 1942//1-D dimes, according to Lange, hubs of two different dates were used for the successive impressions of the die.Īs early as September 1941, dies were being prepared in the die shop at the Philadelphia Mint for 1942-dated production, while 1941-dated dies were still needed to strike calendar-year 1941 output. Should the second impression be slightly misaligned from the first, a doubled die would occur, Lange explained. Mint sunk working dies from a working hub using two impressions, with a delay between impressions to heat or anneal the die, to soften it to accept the second impression.

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