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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8192865, member: 105571&quot;]Larry, this is the F-103c die marriage, noted for the rusted obverse die, 2.3.&nbsp; So, this was a rusted die and I do mean rusted.&nbsp; One good clue, in addition to the bumps and lumps, is that those lumps are all on the devices which would have been incuse on the die and thus hard to clean off when the die was taken off the shelf, discovered rusted, and then prepped for use.&nbsp; Since there is still evidence of rust in the fields, it&#039;s obvious they didn&#039;t apply much effort to cleaning it up.&nbsp; As to why the date doesn&#039;t appear as rusted as the rest of the coin:&nbsp; They used to store these wrapped up in oily/greasy rags and maybe the date area was more protected than the rest of the die.&nbsp; Or maybe they just applied more effort to cleaning the date area than other parts of the die because they viewed the date as the most important of the coin?&nbsp; We can speculate forever and never know for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you go to Gerry Fortin&#039;s site and his die marriage listings, you will see all the diagnostics for obverse and reverse match your coin.&nbsp; As Gerry comments:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Obverse 2 is heavily rusted in this later die state.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Link below.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/date_mintmark/1849o_103cpage.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/date_mintmark/1849o_103cpage.htm" rel="nofollow">Liberty Seated Dimes Varieties 1837-1891 - 1849o_103cpage (seateddimevarieties.com)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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