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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2630832, member: 66&quot;]They would have no way of knowing whether or not those dies would be needed again.&nbsp; They wouldn&#039;t know no one else was going to order half dimes, and even at the end of the year, if the dies were still in good shape they would be held over for use the next year.&nbsp; (They didn&#039;t discard a perfectly good die just because it had the wrong date.&nbsp; If someone had ordered half dimes in Jan 1806 they would have used the 1805 dies.)&nbsp; In fact the reverse of this coin is a die that was created and used in 1803.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why destroy the file?&nbsp; The striking of the file by the steel dies would have destroyed it as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Where did that planchets come from?&nbsp; That silver was owned by a depositor and would have to be returned to him.&nbsp; No one was going to just pick up a coin and walk out with it. (At that time all silver and gold at the mint came from outside depositors and each persons deposit had to be worked up and accounted for before the next deposit could be processed.)&nbsp; Also this variety comes in later die stages than shown on this piece, so the damage was done to the coin not the die.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You damage the coin and then circulate it so that the damage wears off the high point areas.&nbsp; (and I do think I see some traces of the damage pattern on the stars)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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