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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 453353, member: 15199&quot;]Here is some info from a Bowers auction listing,</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&amp;SessionNo=1&amp;LotNo=32" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&amp;SessionNo=1&amp;LotNo=32" rel="nofollow">http://www.bowersandmerena.com/auctions/lot_detail.aspx?auctionno=13080&amp;SessionNo=1&amp;LotNo=32</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and here is an article dedicated to more the Bashlow cent, but it also says:</p><p>from <a href="http://www.confederatequarter.com/cent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.confederatequarter.com/cent.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.confederatequarter.com/cent.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000080"> &quot; Robert Bashlow made restrikes of several different coins from the<b> original</b> dies.&nbsp; One of these was the Continental Dollar.&nbsp; In the case of the Confederate Cent he had copy dies made because of the condition of the original dies.&quot;</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000080"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000080"></span></font>Both of which seem to indicate that it was original dies. Another article that I can&#039;t find says that the Dies were under the control of the Smithsonian and Bashlow and supposedly Bowers borrowed them to do the dollar and they were returned to the Smithsonian with the addition of the confederate cent dies. But treat this as hearsay until I find the reference ( which was probably hearsay anyway)</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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