Interesting statement omitting 1882 proof cent dies and proof TDs 0

[RWB]

These two pages were extracted from the January 3, 1883 report of Philadelphia Mint dies dated 1882 used and destroyed.

 Notice the absence of proof dies for the one cent coin (bottom first page) and omission of Trade Dollar proof dies (text at bottom of second page). Members' thoughts would be of interest.

[kbbpll]

Is the statement of coins per die pair included in the report? Without seeing that, I interpret the last paragraph to mean that only "standard dollars" were in the report, and thus the "aggregate number of pieces struck" did not include trade dollars. It seems odd that they would have included standard dollar proofs in the coins per die pair statistics, as it would have pulled the average down, and determining proof coins per die pair is pretty easy since only one die pair was used.

No cent reverse dies are included in the first section, "for use during the year 1883", but dollars, halves and quarters aren't listed there either.

[RWB]

Yes, the report is complete. The PDF pages start at about #253 on the NNP file. (My file is different - I removed all the blank pages, folder covers, etc.

[kbbpll]

If this is the report https://archive.org/details/rg104entry1box128generalcorrespondencedecember1882tomay1883/page/n267

the "standard dollars" mintage of 11,101,100 does include the 1,100 Morgan proof coins but not the 1,087 trade dollars. The total dies used, 1385, does not match the 1357 in the letter though. (This stuff gives me a headache).

[RWB]

Yep, that's the "starting" page in the NNP file. The pages are not necessarily in order. A single pair of Trade Dollar dies are shown in one table but not elsewhere. Then there's the strange paragraph at bottom of the 2nd page I posted.

It might be worth noting that several other lists mentioning Trade Dollars seem to separate them from other proof coins - as if there were a separate accounting for these. Of course, that makes striking some for collectors easier; but it might also suggest that the latter-date Trade Dollar proofs were made using standard silver dollar planchets. (Or maybe left overs?)

Yes. It's confusing.

Edited January 3, 2020 by RWB