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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1350177, member: 66&quot;]No, there were 19 different obv dies used, and 20 rev dies.&nbsp; Dies were not always changed in pairs and if one die failed it was just replaced with a different one.&nbsp; Also back then the coins were struck to order and the number struck at any given time depended on the amount of silver a person had depositied.&nbsp; If they had a large deposit for the Bank of the United States they might coin thousands of pieces and use several die pairs doing so.&nbsp; Then they might get a deposit of a hundred dollars worth so they would put a pair of dies in the press and strike off his hundred.&nbsp; But inbetween times the dies would be put back in the vault and when dies were needed again there would be no guarantee tha the same pair of dies would be used together.&nbsp; So some varieties may have had long runs and be common while others had very short runs and are very rare.&nbsp; Most of the obverse dies were only paired with a single reverse.&nbsp; The most prolific was paired with six different reverses.&nbsp; Many of the reverses were paired with more than one obverse.&nbsp; the most prolific reverse was paired with four obverses. (one reverse was actually paired with five but only one in 1798.&nbsp; It was also paired with one 1795, three 1796, and one 1797 obverse.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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