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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 395284, member: 66&quot;]Snowden had a lot in common with that night watchman as he was not above restriking rare dates and pattern coins for sale or trade to collectors inorder to acquire more Washington pieces for the mint collection.&nbsp; (Collecting Washingtonia was a BIG fad at the time and Snowden wanted the Mint collection to be second to none.&nbsp; He later wrote a catalog of the mint collection and all of the varieties it included.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But in order to do the die study the first thing you have to do is identify all the die varieties.&nbsp; The two go hand in hand.&nbsp; And the precise dating is only important because it allows you to determine which die varieties were struck by which government.&nbsp; Sure you could just identify varieties and then discard them back inot the market, but putting together a reference set of the die varieties makes it much easier to establish emission sequences, and die state information.&nbsp; This is much harder to do without collecting the die varieties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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