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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 27625, member: 1735&quot;]A couple more items of interest.&nbsp; As far as I know, no examples of the &#039;Accented Hair&#039; obverse have been found mated with the Type 2 reverse.&nbsp; Chuck Wishon and James Wiles have been watching for these and none have been reported.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you had 100 unsearched 1964 proof sets, you would probably find 1-3 sets with &#039;Accented Hair&#039; halves, about 5-10 of the transitional &#039;Normal Hair&#039; obverses paired with the Type 1 reverse, and the rest would be the &#039;Normal Hair&#039; obverse paired with the Type 2 reverse.&nbsp; Easily, over 90% of these would be the &#039;Normal Hair&#039; obverse paired with the Type 2 reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I know that I have been actively seeking and buying every &#039;Accented Hair&#039; proof set I could find for the last 20 years or so, and there are other people that have been doing the same, so fewer and fewer of these are going to be available as time goes by.&nbsp; The reverse varieties are something fairly new and really haven&#039;t caught on yet, so the transitional pairing of the &#039;Normal Hair&#039; obverse and the Type 1 reverse are still out there to be cherry picked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Breen estimates that 100,000 - 120,000 &#039;Accented Hair&#039; pieces exist.&nbsp; In my years of seeking these out, I have found the transitional die pairings show up about 5 times as often as the &#039;Accented Hair&#039;, so my ballpark unofficial best guess is that the transitional die pairings would number 500,000 - 600,000 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;Blunt 9&#039; dime appears in about 1 in 20 of the &#039;Accented Hair&#039; proof sets and all the &#039;Normal Hair&#039; proof sets, and the &#039;Pointed 9&#039; dime appears in the remainder of the &#039;Accented Hair&#039; sets.&nbsp; To my knowledge, no &#039;Pointed 9&#039; dime has been found in a &#039;Normal Hair&#039; proof set.&nbsp; The mintage of the &#039;Pointed 9&#039; dime could be about 95,000 - 114,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Except for Breen&#039;s estimate of the number of &#039;Accented Hair&#039; pieces, all these are my observations/ estimates/ guesses from collecting these sets for so long and in no way should they be taken as gospel. </p><p><br /></p><p>Happy hunting and Happy Holidays![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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