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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 4893948, member: 59677&quot;]Likely... But John posted at the time that he had looked at 1,000s of 1852 fleaBay listings over years...</p><p><br /></p><p>Flynn&amp;Zack says they used 109 obverse dies to strike 18,663,500 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>F&amp;Z hypothesizes: &quot;The most likely cause is a dropped date punch, landing at an angle with the two closest to the face of the die.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>18663500/109 = 171224 coins per average obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>With an estimated survival (all grades) of 35,000 or 1.88%, a single die survival is on the order of 3,210 coins... (that of course is averages * averages * averages and essentially a useless number).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>FYI - the die book for New Orleans is in NARA, I have not seen the Philly version.</p><p>FYI - Numismatic Scrapbook (1964, July) published the day book data for trimes, but only from 1854. For example, 1854 - used 6 obverse and 7 reverse dies...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>to strike 671,000 coins or 111,833 per die (average)... not unreasonable to GUESS they used 1 die on May 22, two on May 26m one on June 10, one on November 24 and either 1 or 2 on December 8...</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not seen 1852, but I would suspect similar - use a die or two for the day until it screams uncle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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