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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2310788, member: 68&quot;]Relatively few dies were used for mint set coins.&nbsp; For halfs they&#039;d get about 25,000/ 30,000 strikes so there were maybe 60 dies used.&nbsp; EDS lasts for hundreds (even thousands) of strikes but that &quot;new die look&quot; wears of the half dollar dies in only about 10 strikes.&nbsp; That&#039;s 600 per year on average.&nbsp; Then these 600 coins are subjected to the same insults that other mint set coins suffer.&nbsp; Of course even new dies that are badly adjusted won&#039;t make a full strike. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Business strike coins are made in much larger numbers (though not so much in more recent times).&nbsp; Far more new die strikes go into mint bags but the dies strike half a million coins and finding the ten new dies among these is like looking for a needle in a haystack.&nbsp; In mint sets new dies are easy because you have 10 chances of finding 10 in 30,000.&nbsp; Every 300th mint set has a coin struck by new dies! By contrast you&#039;ll have to check 25 bags of half dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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