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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2686533, member: 1892&quot;]Context: Brenner was Teddy Roosevelt&#039;s boy; he got the Lincoln job because of that. By August 1909, Taft was President and even though he&#039;d been Roosevelt&#039;s handpicked successor, bad blood was already brewed because of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which Taft liked and Teddy hated. Roosevelt had been....rather uncomplimentary of Taft in public for some time at that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why was there an order to change the VDB initials within 72 hours of the public first seeing them? It wasn&#039;t the public....</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, you may be correct and the excess VDB MPL&#039;s got dumped into circulation. Me, I think the standing order was, &quot;Make Brenner disappear from association with the Cent&quot; as revenge on Roosevelt. Why, otherwise, did they take years to put his initials back onto the coin? They could have made that alteration immediately; the &quot;outcry&quot; was that the initials were too prominent, not that they shouldn&#039;t be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I think the Proofs got turned into new planchets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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