estimated mintages for 1979-S and 1981-S variety coins listed............

tahoe98

...here, for those that are curious

keyman64

You never know what you might get out of an article...I knew most of the following but liked to read it.

Also showing interest are the 1916-D/D dimes. The right slash (/) is used as a symbol for “over.” In this case it means a repunched D over D. There are four reverse dies that have been positively identified for the 1916-D.

Of the four, dies Nos. 2 and 3 have the D repunched. Die No. 2 has the strongest, most easily seen repunching showing most at the upper edge of the D. The third die shows a fairly string notch in the upper rear corner of the upper serif.

As with almost any minting variety, there are no exact numbers to work with, so estimates have to be made based on the numbers that are reported in the hobby. In this case we do know that there are two dies with repunched mintmarks for 1916-D dimes, and that there are four different reverse dies in all that have been identified, so, in theory, half of the 1916-D dimes should show the repunch. Since the 1916-D dime is in itself a rarity, the two varieties with repunched mintmarks are just that much rarer.