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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3079302, member: 46237&quot;]To add to that, varieties are not just from abnormalities in a die, but in the die pairs used (called marriages). Modern dies are supposed to be indistinguishable from each other, so you cannot tell which die a coin was struck from. This was not true for early dies that were engraved by hand, as each had slight variations.</p><p><br /></p><p>As such, you could tell that a coin was struck with say, obverse die A and reverse die C - that A/C marriage would be a variety. Then you could have another obverse B and reverse D variety. At that point, obverse A and B are known and reverse C and D are known. If they swap them with each other to make A/D and B/C those are also new varieties by virtue of being a new die pairing, even though they are not new dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a collar (the third die), which was also periodically changed and could be identified by differing numbers of reeds. So you could then have A/C with collar 1 and A/C with collar 2 and they could be different varieties as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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