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Originally Posted by marcdelpercio
Thanks Mike and Joshua,
I have noticed a few that have the smudged look. I have one of those myself. It looks like the printing plate was dinged or something. Some are very clearly "D" and some are very clearly "B" but there is almost a third "smudged" variation.
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Marc - I would posit indeed a 3rd variation. Conjecture: At some point in the run, they realized they were printing a D when it should have been a B (for Barney) and tried a "quick fix" of scratching the D in the plate to turn it into a B. It was replaced by a true B in a later run.