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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1453983, member: 66&quot;]Today they are retired after 3 - 5K coins but back then they not only used them longer, but they would also repolish and continue using them.&nbsp; They might get 15 - 25K coins out of them.&nbsp; back in the 19th century they would sometimes use retired proof dies for business strike, and they do sometimes still use retired mint set dies for business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Badthad said, the doubling you have shown is die deterioration doubling not a DDO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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