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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8467412, member: 101855&quot;]Die states are not die varieties. Different planchet stocks could be viewed as varieties of a sort, but if I were still active in half cent die variety collecting, I would have a representative coin, not each variety on each planchet source type.</p><p><br /></p><p>This sort of study is interesting in the academic sense, but it really kills the hobby for a lot of would be collectors. When one collector has to have multiple examples of each variety, there are less coins available for others. Even the most common varieties are represented by maybe 4,000 to 5,000 coins (e.g. 1804 C-13, Plain 4 Stemless reverse). For most varieties which are rated R-1, the number of survivors is in the 100s. For the better stuff, R-4 and better, there might be a couple hundred.</p><p><br /></p><p>It does not take many coins in one collection to make the hobby &quot;exclusive.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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