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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rlm&#039;s cents, post: 560853, member: 7957&quot;]He doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; What he is trying to extrapolate is the odds that a 1909-S is a die variety.&nbsp; The coins lost to attrition should be the same percentage as minted and therefore, the remaining coins are still the same percentage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I have is the 500,000 assumption.&nbsp; It may well be accurate for some years, but, as a for instance, the 1909-S VDB had 4 known dies with a mintage of only 484,000.&nbsp; And that leaves 1,825,000 for his 4 varieties of 1909-S.&nbsp; At 500,000, the 4 varieties exceed the total production of this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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