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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 283040, member: 66&quot;]We really need someone to measure a bust dime.&nbsp; Mine is at home and inside a capital plastic type set holder so it isn&#039;t easy to get at.&nbsp; Can someone else help?</p><p><br /></p><p>And new research shows that they WERE struck in reeded collars.&nbsp; There are no early reeded edge coins known with blundered edges such as you see on the letter edge half dollars (no partially reeded, or overlapped reeds).&nbsp; If you have an edge with an identifiable anomaly such as a wide reed it is always in the same position compared to the obv/rev designs, and off-center coins have plain edges.&nbsp; This would indicate that they were NOT given reeded edges in the Castaining machine either before or after striking. So the reeds must have been imparted by a collar.&nbsp; What would be interesting would be to measure several coins keeping track of the varieties to see what the variability of the diameters actually is, and are the different sizes (if there are differences) grouped by variety?&nbsp; If they are different , but consistent by variety, that would indicate that there were different sizes of collars.&nbsp; Variability within a variety (assuming the marriage was not interrupted) would indicate the use of an open collar.&nbsp; WE NEED DATA![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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