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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2112838, member: 66&quot;]A die marriage is a pairing of a given obv and rev die to create a die variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example dies are normally identified by numbers and rev by letters.&nbsp; If you have obv 1 paired with rev A&nbsp; and we will call that die variety 1 (first marriage).&nbsp; Then lets say they remove the rev die and replace it with rev B.&nbsp; This created die variety 2.&nbsp; While die variety 2 is being struck obv 1 cracks.&nbsp; This is still die variety 2 but in a later die stage.&nbsp; Now for some reason they remove rev B and reinsert rev A again.&nbsp; It would still be die variety 1 (same die pair 1A) but this is die varety 1(second marriage)</p><p><br /></p><p>The pairing 1A would be a die marriage, 1B is a die marriage, and the 1(cracked)A is a die remarriage.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1794 large cents there was one rev die which was paired up with or used in five different die marriages.&nbsp; In the capped bust half dimes there are cases of first, second and even third remarriages of dies where one die or the other would be taken away and then they would later be brought back together again.</p><p><br /></p><p>So any pairing of dies is a marriage, and any interrupted pairing with the dies brought back together again later is a remarriage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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