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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 900728, member: 21705&quot;]I&#039;ve been studying the Heritage archives and reading Sheldon and I think this is what happened:</p><p><br /></p><p>During late 1802 and early 1803, little attention was being paid to either the die pairings or the date. This is evidenced by several sequential oddities. First, S-243 of 1803 Reverse A (L of 1802) reverse die markers indicate this was actually struck before S-241 of 1802.</p><p><br /></p><p>S-242 Obverse 14 of 1802 die markers indicate it was also struck before the S-241.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I believe that rather than Obverse 2 of 1803 being retooled, it was actually used continually, first with Reverse C (M of 1802) for die states I and II of S-245 whereupon is was temporarily replaced with Reverse B and produced S-244. After this, the Reverse C was used again in it&#039;s terminal die state to produce the S-245 Die state III. </p><p><br /></p><p>This would leave a sequence of:</p><p><br /></p><p>1 L (A of 1802) S-243</p><p>14 M (C of 1803) S-242</p><p>14 L S-241</p><p>2/3 M (C of 1803) S-245 Die states I and II</p><p>2/3 B S-244</p><p>2/3 M Die State III</p><p><br /></p><p>I will edit this later with marked up pictures as evidence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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