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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 729675, member: 15199"]It isn't a restrike, it is a token, not a coin. A restrike is striking a real coin a second or more time with the same die, even though it may be done years later. The 1862 was never a real coin, so it is just a token or fantasy issue. They are very common  in the south ( imagine why <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  ), and some have said you can still buy them in souvenir stands for a dollar or so. Most I have seen on ebay sell for $1 to $5 or so , depending on the luck of the seller. Basically , you have the real strike of 12 coins by Lovett in 1861. then a coin Dealer named Hazeltine bought the dies and he and Maris made 73 (First) restrikes until the die broke.7 gold, 12 silver, 54 copper. Thought to have been destroyed. IN 1961 Robert Bashlow, a New York City coin dealer announcd he had the dies. The obverse die had been defaced by hammer blows and the reverse by chisel cuts. Bashlow had August C. Frank & Co. of Philadelphia make transfer dies and strike 30,156 copies in a variety of metals ( and fiber, etc) in time for the Civil War centennial. Known as the Bashlow "second restrikes," they are the final run of Confederate cents. Following his 1961 production strikes, Bashlow donated both dies to the Smithsonian Institute where they currently reside.  Jim[/QUOTE]