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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BostonCoins, post: 2661633, member: 34720&quot;]Where my passion is early large copper, I often find myself dealing with Sheldon and Newcomb die varieties. </p><p><br /></p><p>While reading threads on Coin Talk, and similar websites, I&#039;m often exposed to the Morgan VAMs, Overton Busts and other such die marriages.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious to hear WHY you think these die varieties/marriages are so collected.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will have a hard enough time getting singular examples of the early coppers ranging from 1793 - 1857. If I start to concentrate on the die varieties, this jumps the number of coins I&#039;d need from 60 up to 500+!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>So why do the die collectors do it? I realize that these dies come with different rarities and such, but does that REALLY matter? If I had a 1798 Large Cent in MS condition, does it really matter which Sheldon varietiey it is?</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps it&#039;s a way to expand your collection horizon. With a 60 year production run, there are only so many coins to collect. However, if you add dies, that expands what you can collect by the hundreds. Is it as simple as that? Or is there something more... something I&#039;m missing??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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