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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 792950, member: 6036&quot;]No.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are many cases of a die marriage lasting for a while, then one die being matched up with a different mate, then being reunited again with the original mate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are many reasons for this. One reason : the mint stopped production of a given denomination and used the press for other denominations; in the meantime, the dies were stored away. When it came time to resume production, they didn&#039;t necessarily pull out the same dies.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sometimes, the Mint shut down entirely for yellow fever epidemics. Again, they pulled the dies and stashed &#039;em and pulled a different marriage when time to start up again.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another oddity of the early Mint - since silver dimes and gold $2.5s are the same diameter and have the same reverse design, the same reverse dies were sometimes used for two different denominations ! I&#039;ll let your imagination run wild on that one... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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