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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 35451, member: 1886&quot;]<a href="http://images.collectors.com/Articles/ConfedCentRestrikeSilver_150.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.collectors.com/Articles/ConfedCentRestrikeSilver_150.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://images.collectors.com/Articles/ConfedCentRestrikeSilver_150.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The CSA contacted a Philadelphia jewerly company known as Bailey &amp; Company to strike&nbsp; Confederate cents.&nbsp; Bailey &amp; Company hired Robert Lovett to sink the dies but after sinking them and striking&nbsp; 12 pieces Lovett got scarred and hid everything. It was when he accidently spent one of the CSA cents&nbsp; in a bar some ten years later that&nbsp; John Haseltine and J. Colvin Randall got wind of them, after the bar tender contacted them and Haseltine figured out that they were Lovett&#039;s work.&nbsp;&nbsp; Haseltine ended up buying the coin from the bar tender and the other 11 from Lovett along with the dies.&nbsp; And Randall along with&nbsp; Peter L. Krider used the dies to strike&nbsp; 3 gold pieces, 5 silver pieces and 55 copper pieces before the dies shattered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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