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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 4246952, member: 19250&quot;][ATTACH=full]1083937[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1083938[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1083939[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here are my images...the 1838 half dime e corroded reverse , it unusual for 19th century dies to have rust issues,however in 1838 there were issues found on both obv. And rev. dies.</p><p>This specimen is clearly stage 1 of a 4 stage process of this die breaking down.</p><p>That could create a variety collector to search for the other 3 stages of the die wear.</p><p>The 1838 reverse #4 was paired with obv.#3 which equals the &lt; V-6 &gt; and shows no corrosion.&nbsp; Now again remember mintage 2,225,000 now it is unfortunate that there&#039;s no records of the number of working dies&nbsp; pairs for this year 1838.</p><p>Later years in the series better records were kept.</p><p>However even after 1851 in Philly as well New Orleans, and San Francisco the records were still not up to date and some years again no records kept.</p><p>I imagine after studying this series and do the die marriages one could come up with the data needed to have a count on all dies used.</p><p>One needs to examine the mintage as well the amount of coins dated 1838 still survive, as to the odds of finding and obtaining all 4 stages of this variety.</p><p>However mint state examples do exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1083951[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here is an stage 1 example of the fs-901&nbsp; in MS 65 priced at $2750.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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