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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26629386, member: 104064&quot;]That is definitely crazy, considering how scarce the Obv1 anomaly seems to be. I agree after taking a closer look that if the GC coin is also Obv1, it is a third die. While the first 1 aligns with the B designer initial in close to the same location as your first coin, the right edges of both 1&#039;s align with the middle of a denticle. On the GC coin they align roughly between the denticles. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is quite perplexing. SF only coined dimes in 1901 during March and September, according to the monthly coinage report. 519,330 in March, 73,692 in September. I did a census of the Reverse 3 (thick ribbon) coins and found 13% with Rev3, which aligns almost exactly with the September coinage, 12.43% of the 593,022 total. This and other similar evidence indicates that the Rev3 hub was introduced around April 1, 1901. Because all three of these Obv1 examples are paired with Rev2 (thin ribbon), my hunch is that they were coined with the 519,330 in March. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately when I was doing this research 6 years ago there were no die shipment or destruction records for 1901. But there are for 1900. SF was shipped 50 die pairs and produced 5,168,270 coins in 1900, a little over 100,000 coins per die. If this average was maintained for 1901-S, only 5 or 6 die pairs were used to produce the entire mintage. During this era dies were almost always shipped to the branch mints in multiples of 5. So if 3 out of 5, or even 3 out of 10 obverse dies for 1901-S were the Obv1 anomaly, where are all the coins? Did the dies quickly fail catastrophically? I don&#039;t see any obv die cracks on these three examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, I love to speculate about this stuff. I&#039;m always tracking any 1901-S dimes that come up on Heritage, GC or Stacks, sometimes DLRC, so maybe I&#039;ll get a chance to own the Obv1 someday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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