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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3076995, member: 112&quot;]In the very early years, yes damaged dies were used. But that was because the mint was struggling to even survive, they simply didn&#039;t have the money to make new dies. If they had had the money, they never would have used the damaged dies. This is all historical record, and even they recognized and admitted that they were producing damaged coins by using damaged dies. And they were not all happy about it ! But they did it, because they had to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once that period had passed, as soon as it was noticed that a die had cracked or become damaged in any way - the die was pulled and replaced with a new die. And any coins that they could find with die cracks, were removed and sent to the scrap heap. This also confirms that mint itself recognizes and classifies cracked dies as being damaged and the coins they struck being flawed coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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