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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrweaseluv, post: 24654878, member: 40340&quot;]The full article is here ( <a href="https://blog.littletoncoin.com/strike-and-strike-again/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://blog.littletoncoin.com/strike-and-strike-again/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.littletoncoin.com/strike-and-strike-again/</a>) and it tells the story of the original CSA cent dies used to make this coin. I have quoted the part about baslow below <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They should have added &quot;defaced&quot; as well as rusted in the description below (those are chisel marks on the reverse of the die to &quot;deface&quot; it or prevent further use/minting)</p><p><br /></p><p>Quoted from &quot;Littleton coins&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometime in 1961, the now-rusted dies found their way to coin dealer Robert Socrates Bashlow of New York. Bashlow took the dies to August C. Frank &amp; Company, a Philadelphia firm that specialized in making medals. Together, they worked on a special process to transfer the Confederate coin designs to new dies. Next Bashlow had the dies tested on several metals. Just 50 pieces of each of the first six test metals were ever struck, or 300 coins: nickel-silver, lead, zinc, red fiber, tin and aluminum. The seventh test metal was bronze – and the one Bashlow wound up using to restrike 20,000 of Lovett’s original one-cent design for the Confederacy. The following year, in 1962, Bashlow donated the dies to the Smithsonian and sold most of his Confederate cents to collectors[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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