Anyone have a Lincoln Memorial cent pattern sitting around?
RogerB
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This letter is one of several referring to designs and testing of the 1959 memorial reverse for the Lincoln cent.
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Is there some doubt that the trial pieces were all destroyed?? Cheers, RickO
Dang!
So there was a Memorial Reverse die in the Mint at the same time as 1958 obverses!
Mint Employee #1: "But he didn't say to destroy these ones."
Mint Employee #2: "He didn't say we could make them either!"
(just kidding)
Actually, there was an intense effort to be sure no new reverse dies were accidentally paired with 1958 obverse dies. The order was to destroy - by physical count - all wheat reverse dies at all mints before any new reverse die would be sent out. Quantities had to match. Accountancy professor Howard managed this.
Does this mean @dcarr could make a YYYY date coin
Maybe with the old reverse!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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They destroyed the wheat reverses, but not the 1958-dated obverses?
The obverses would all have been destroyed in normal operation. Usable reverse dies were normally carried forward. This was an exception.
Curious, seeing as how Philadelphia struck over 28 million cents in December of 1958.