Although with a slightly higher mintage than 1830, just six die marriages of 1831 are known from three obverse and five reverse dies. The total production for the year was 771,350 coins. In their introduction to the dime varieties of this year, the authors commented: "All things considered, 1831 is an excellent year on which a collector could approach the Capped Bust dime challenge. It offers good naked-eye perceptible varieties, only six marriages, some fascinating challenges in identification, and nothing rarer than R-3, all of which make it an ideal year for contracting the Capped Bust dime fever."

This is the only obverse die use. The reverse was earlier used in 1830 for JR-7 and JR-8.

The obverse is cracked from the border through first 1 to the drapery ribbon. The reverse has several die cracks including from two adjacent leaves to left wing, from border to A of STATES and scroll, and from bottom right of E in UNITED to scroll. A heavy die chip partially fills the upper inside space of 0 in the denomination with another attached to top of center bar of E in AMERICA. Most of the reverse dentils from 9:00 to 3:00 are poorly defined or missing.