On top of that one has to take 'scrapped' dies into consideration.
A while ago a Chinese manufacturer was offering 19th century French police buttons. They were from a one policeman village.
I assume the Chinese sift through the scrap they buy in Europe and resell items to interested parties.
Tens of thousands of French dies were scrapped in 2008.
Thank you Neibelungen for your contributions to this forum.
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