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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marshall, post: 2578335, member: 21705&quot;]No. Each die is a variety which then passes though die States/Stages which are often identifiable. But the die variety is tied to the die, not the stage or state.</p><p><br /></p><p>With a ballpark idea of total number of varieties, you might use 1.01/A.01 so there is no confusion about the die state. There are seldom more than ten die states which usually only changes with a significant change in the die like a crack developing or advancing to a new position or developing a cud. Wear might be&nbsp; used to deterimine if it&#039;s a early or late stage of the die state. Here I do differentiate the terms. I hadn&#039;t considered it when I chose to call them interchangible.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might identify a die variety which initially can only be identified by the position of the date. Then it might develop a light crack and becomes a second stage/state of that die. Commonly called 1(I) and 1(II) and then progressing until the terminal state of the die. But it&#039;s always die variety 1. The use of roman numerals was used by Breen and was tied to the variety die states rather than each die&#039;s (obverse and reverse), but I think it should be tied to the die itself whether used on a single variety or multiple varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if we began using the year followed by the die, numbers for obverse and letters for reverse like Sheldon, and identifying the die state/stage with a decimal followed by the state/stage you would get something like 1793 1.1/A.1. This leaves a second decimal position for newly discovered die states. Say a new discovery between 1.1 and 1.2 is discovered. Simply place it as 1.15 and you don&#039;t have to worry about changing the entire sequence. For series where there might be hundreds of dies like the Shield Nickels, you would probably want to modify the reverse lettering a bit and go to AA then AB rather than AA then BB and so forth as Sheldon did after going through the alphabet with the first 26 reverse dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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