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<p>[QUOTE="900fine, post: 792950, member: 6036"]No.</p><p> </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> </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't necessarily pull out the same dies.</p><p> </p><p>Sometimes, the Mint shut down entirely for yellow fever epidemics. Again, they pulled the dies and stashed 'em and pulled a different marriage when time to start up again.</p><p> </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'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>
[QUOTE="900fine, post: 792950, member: 6036"]No. 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. 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't necessarily pull out the same dies. Sometimes, the Mint shut down entirely for yellow fever epidemics. Again, they pulled the dies and stashed 'em and pulled a different marriage when time to start up again. 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'll let your imagination run wild on that one... :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
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