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Originally Posted by 68bird400HO
There was no "switch" in the number of characters. The date coding for these was last digit of the year followed by the month code followed by the day of the month. If the day was a single digit, then you would have 3 characters total in the date code. 1971455HOs example of September 7th, 1971 would be 1J7, not 1J07. The 927 on my 71 TA is date coded 0J1. The only reason why I think the Ebay one is a mis-stamp is because that "D" sure looks like a "0" which doesn't make any sense. Distributors used the same date coding convention.
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Okay, good to know. I had no clue about the earlier ones, just trying to give an example of 3 digits.