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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2093421, member: 46237&quot;]I can&#039;t say for other series, but for small bust quarters, some years there were no die cracks at all. Other years they changed out the dies after only very minor cracks. For late 1835 and 1836 they rode the dies hard, some until they shattered, and they just kept on using them. Since there was a year overlap in die use up to that point anyway, they could have simply re-used dies from earlier years instead of the cracked dies. They could have made more working dies. I don&#039;t believe they were forced into it; they just though the cracked dies were &quot;good enough&quot; and didn&#039;t see a pressing need to change them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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