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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4585252, member: 66"]You have to go through the mint records in the national archives. Both the obv and the rev dies have a serial number and records as to how many coins are struck from each. Dated obv dies and worn out rev dies are destroyed each year, but an unused rev or a used rev that still had plenty of life left in it would probably be held over and used the next year. I know that was true in the 19th century and probably true even in the 21st. Case in point are 2007 W burnished ASE dies that were held over and used in 2008 even though the design was modified in 2008. If the design hadn't been modified we probably would have never know about the held over dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in the case of the #39 rev being used in 39 and held over to 40 there is a notation to that effect in the mint records. That research isn't mine. It comes from Roger Burdette and his book Proof Coins 1936 - 1942.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4585252, member: 66"]You have to go through the mint records in the national archives. Both the obv and the rev dies have a serial number and records as to how many coins are struck from each. Dated obv dies and worn out rev dies are destroyed each year, but an unused rev or a used rev that still had plenty of life left in it would probably be held over and used the next year. I know that was true in the 19th century and probably true even in the 21st. Case in point are 2007 W burnished ASE dies that were held over and used in 2008 even though the design was modified in 2008. If the design hadn't been modified we probably would have never know about the held over dies. But in the case of the #39 rev being used in 39 and held over to 40 there is a notation to that effect in the mint records. That research isn't mine. It comes from Roger Burdette and his book Proof Coins 1936 - 1942.[/QUOTE]
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