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Message:: [QUOTE="10gary22, post: 972094, member: 23626"]That is the point. The mint has the serial number of every die. Their record keeping is and has been meticulous. They can run 6 billion cents and know the exact number to the coin ! I mean we have cent mintages that end in 3. LOL They track every die. No one will ever make me believe they don't have an exact record. With the 88, I think someone started changing the dies. Probably had a box of the 89 hammers. So swapped those out first. Went to lunch, came back and they started stamping coins. QC looks at the run and stops the run. They grab the box of 89 anvil dies and swap those. Coins are in the bags. They write the report and file it. No biggie. But it is to us. lol No way to prove my theory, because no one from the mint is talking. But I worked with my hands and tools for 45 years, and I can see that happening on any job. It is the kind of thing that happens in shops, construction, etc. Anyplace things are made. Instead of everyone finding all the supposedly minted coins from 6 dies, people are going to find them more scarce than thought, and collections aren't really complete without the transition coins. IMHO[/QUOTE]