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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3629479, member: 66&quot;]Because that is what they were called in the 1850&#039;s.&nbsp; The Coin World story doesn&#039;t go into a lot of depth but Rust claimed that he had heard that the Fugios were made in New Haven so he &quot;went there to see if he could find the dies.&quot;&nbsp; (He never explained why he thought the dies would still be around almost 70 years later.) And sure enough he did &quot;find&quot; dies including one set he claimed were being used as paperweights.&nbsp; So when he made pieces from what he claims were the original dies, they were called restrikes.&nbsp; Of course knowledgeable collectors realized they were NOT form the original dies, but by them marketing was kicking in and they have been &quot;restrikes&quot; ever since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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