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Anybody have any idea what happend to cause this date?

jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,305 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like it got whacked by something good.

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    ShurkeShurke Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks intentional to me, like someone was just fooling around seeing how they could modify that digit.

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    braddickbraddick Posts: 25,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A family member:

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,288 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Random damage is, by definition, random. Anything is possible.

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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks,

    I was thinking it looked like somebody changed the digit to an arabic character, but I couldnt see any kind of tooling in and around the digit, but technology has improved greatly over the years so most likely that what it was

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