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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 24867928, member: 105571&quot;]This is quite a bit of an esoteric question for the Capped Bust Half Dollar collectors out there.&nbsp; I asked it of a friend that is a rabid Bust Half Nut and he wasn&#039;t able (or willing) to answer it to my satisfaction.&nbsp; There&#039;s actually a couple of nested questions here.&nbsp; So, if anyone can help enlighten me on it, I would very much appreciate it.&nbsp; Here goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>I have often read that there are 450 distinct die marriages in the Capped Bust Half Dollar, Lettered Edge series, 1807-1836.&nbsp; Is that the generally accepted number?</p><p><br /></p><p>Nested question and here it gets esoteric:&nbsp; Does that number (450 or whatever) include remarriages and if so, how many of the 450 are remarriages? </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I collect Capped Bust Half Dimes by marriage and remarriage where a remarriage is defined as a die marriage that was minted at a later time than the original die marriage was minted (see below for a more thorough explanation).&nbsp; In reviewing my Fifth Edition Overton/Peterson I can find no use of the term &quot;remarriage&quot;.&nbsp; I do, however, note the use of the &quot;a&quot; and &quot;b&quot; subscript to the die marriage notation to call out a later die state which is not necessarily the same as a die remarriage but could be.&nbsp; One does not preclude the other.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, the final question is, do the CB half dollar collectors even use the term remarriage and define the series in that manner in any way?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a subscript for those interested in such things:&nbsp; The CB half dollar had its own dedicated screw press so that dies in service in the press tended to be used continuously until retired at which time another half dollar die or dies were installed.&nbsp; The other series; copper, half dimes, dimes, quarters, small gold were struck on a smaller press and the dies were often removed to strike a production run of a different series.&nbsp; This meant that when half dime dies were reinstalled for a production run there was no effort to specifically use the same obverse and reverse dies used in the previous run so you wound up with coins minted from various combinations of the available obverse and reverse dies.&nbsp; When a set of dies were reinstalled that had been previously used together, the coins produced were the result of a &quot;remarriage&quot; of those dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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