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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 6626951, member: 105571&quot;]So, I am in the process of building a Red Book Variety set of capped bust half-dimes, 1829-1837, where Red Book lists 16 different varieties.&nbsp;&nbsp; But there are about 122 known die marriages.&nbsp; I am collecting with an eye to possibly expanding the set to a die marriage collection at some point so my purchasing for the Red Book set is geared more to rarer die marriages than the more common ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I always attribute a potential purchase/bid to see if the coin&#039;s die marriage rarity makes it more attractive to me.&nbsp; Such was the case with an auction I won last night for an 1835 Small Date, Small 50C that is the LM-11 die marriage, Rarity 4.&nbsp; Seller&#039;s photos below, PCGS AU-55.[ATTACH=full]1267529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1267530[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When researching the LM-11 die marriage, I found what I thought was an anomaly in the Logan-McCloskey book which stated that the Reverse FF die for the 1835 LM-11 was the second use of this die.&nbsp; For the life of me, I could not find the first use among the 1835 die marriages.&nbsp; So, I went to the emission order table on page 64 and lo and behold, the first use of Reverse FF was not in 1835 or even 1834 coinage but rather in 1836!</p><p><br /></p><p>Such is the charm of early U.S. coinage.&nbsp; The first use of the Reverse FF die was to make coins dated 1836.&nbsp; Then the mint reused the FF die to mint 1835-dated coins.&nbsp; The third and final use of Reverse FF was again to mint 1836-dated coins, this time the LM-4 die marriage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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