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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3145202, member: 66&quot;]What about a case where the mint knowingly used dies from one denomination and paired them with the dies of a different denomination?</p><p><br /></p><p>It was done with the draped bust heraldic eagle dimes. The dimes and the quarter eagles were very close in size and had the same design.&nbsp; At least five different reverse dies were used to strike quarter eagles, and then later paired with dime obverses to strike dimes.&nbsp; All the rev dies were used first on the gold coins and then on the silver,&nbsp; No reverses went the other way.&nbsp; It was basically a way for the early mint to conserve die steel.&nbsp; (There were dimes that used there own reverses as well, and not all the quarter eagle reverse were used for dimes.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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