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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4580863, member: 101855&quot;]Just a brief history lesson.</p><p><br /></p><p>The New Orleans Mint was run by three entities in 1861. According the <u>Red Book</u>, it struck 330,000 half dollars when the U.S. Government controlled it, 1,240,000 when the State of Louisiana had it and 962,633 after Louisiana joined the Confederate States of America. The educated guess is that the pieces with the die break shown above were among the last group.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Confederacy only made one coin that was of their design, the Confederate half dollar of which four are known. All the rest of the coins that the Confederacy made at the Dahlonega, New Orleans and perhaps Charlotte Mints were made with union dies. There were no really good die makers in the South who were available to the Rebel Government.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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