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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2497478, member: 1765&quot;]I&#039;ve seen records of Morgan dollar die usage, in the form of mint logs, from a couple years that show an average of about 130,000 per die.&nbsp; In the log for 1878-S, there are some that are under 10,000 per die that were from May (SF began Morgan production in mid-April).&nbsp; I assume these are the rare B1 reverses.&nbsp; There are also some that are over 250,000.&nbsp; For 1881-S and 1898-S, there were some outliers that were over 600,000 coins from a die.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 300 number is seen as inaccurate for the first dies (VAM 9).&nbsp; This was the number of coins that was in the first delivery from the coiner to Linderman, the mint director, on March 12.&nbsp; The total mintage estimate of 750,000 for the 78 8TFs is seen as quite reasonable, however, and this was 41 die pairs.&nbsp; I did a quick, seat-of-the-pants deduction as to just how rare some of these die pairs are during the ANA summer seminar, and we decided that there are clearly a few varieties for which one die failed after no more than a couple hundred strikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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