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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 1238132, member: 6036"]Here's something interesting about the 1807... Back in the day, the reverse dies were used for both dimes and $2.5 gold ! They were the same size and design, so why not ? In fact, legendary collector Ed Price built a collection upon that theme - the dies shared 'twixt two denominations and the die marriages and remarriages. It's fascinating to trace the die states as a given reverse die was swapped between the two. By 1807, mint workers knew the Draped Bust design was going away and the Capped Bust design coming on, so the 1807 DB dimes got less emphasis. Mintage was fairly low - so low they needed only a single die marriage to make all 1807 dimes. And here's the rub... They used a reverse die that had already been used on quarter eagles. Four different die marriages, in fact. In other words, the reverse die for all 1807 dimes was already heavily worn before it struck its first dime. It was no longer flat, but buckled. One can see that very plainly in the weakness of the reverse legend, particularly "UNIT". Even mint state 1807 dimes show that weakness to some extent.[/QUOTE]