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Message:: [QUOTE="giorgio11, post: 1273983, member: 17094"]Your Dad sent me the link, to both Gilroy Roberts' and Frank Gasparro's recollections written only months after the introduction of the Kennedy half. Interesting stuff, and frustrating too! The pertinent point is where Roberts, designer of the obverse, writes: "... Mrs. Kennedy was favorably impressed with the design on both sides of the coin but felt it would be an improvement if the part in the hair, on the portrait, was less pronounced and more accents were added. ..." The presumption is "more accents in the hair" but I suppose it could be read to mean accents elsewhere as well. And the passive voice "accents were added", the lack of an object "added to what/where?" and his lack of explaining exactly what he did (or, passively, "what was done") all make for frustrating reading. And how does all of this interrelate to the Type One/Type Two Reverse dies? This requires cogitation on my part ... Here's the link for those who want to read the whole thing (click on footnote 11): <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/index.cfm?action=nugget08-12-07" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/index.cfm?action=nugget08-12-07" rel="nofollow">http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/index.cfm?action=nugget08-12-07</a> Thanks for pointing this out to us, Caleb.[/QUOTE]