Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;StrikeOutXXX, post: 2084963, member: 73698&quot;]I know right - seems impossible.&nbsp; This one has sat in an oddity box for anywhere from 20-27 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For 1919-P&#039;s, they used 521 Obverse Dies striking 37,017,050 pieces - averaging 71,050 dimes per die.&nbsp; The final acceptable production numbers was 35,740,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>HUGE assumptions here (basically meaningless, but to put things in perspective) - if this DDO was restricted to one working die, an average production of 71,000 could have been made, but... 1,277,050 dimes were deemed defective in the whole run and were returned to the M&amp;R Department for melting into new coinage ingots.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this was that visible to the naked eye, imagine how many of the 71k might have been included in the 1.28M rejects.&nbsp; Even more likely is the die did not finish a full production run/life as it was probably spotted while still in-use, but again... all speculation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to Roger Burdette for the Mint Reports/info above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in