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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 3073840, member: 87737&quot;][USER=86305]@HawkeEye[/USER], I somewhat agree that my guess of 1000 could be high, but Alna Wilde owned or examined the following with numbers approaching 1,000 or higher;</p><p><br /></p><p>GA 457</p><p>MISS 609</p><p>NC 536 &amp; 1767 (both UDC)</p><p>TN 1396 &amp; 1582 (also UDC&#039;s)</p><p>VA 1167 (UDC).</p><p><br /></p><p>Because there are also a number of known UDC examples with numbers &lt;1k, it rules out (?) the possibility that the UDC&#039;s recieved a &#039;1&#039; before the serial number. Also, all the know SL/GL examples are numbered below 100.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been varying thoughts on what the numbering corresponded to as you stated, so unless something gets uncovered (found?) at some point, it has been, and will be a guessing game. One thought I had was that the numbers were random, but that wouldn&#039;t make complete sense with the known numbers. There is also an interestingly high proportion of duplicate numbers (ALA 4, MISS 4, &amp; N CAR 4) and consecutive numbers among known examples (LA 35 &amp; LA 36). With so few known, I find it odd that there are &#039;so many&#039; duplicates and consecutives.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Missouri, I doubt there ever were any commissioned for Missouri, as it was not one of the States of the Confederacy. It was claimed by the Confederacy, but never under its control. Which makes the Kentucky issue a little perplexing, as it was in the same &#039;claimed but not controlled&#039; status as Missouri. There are (were as of 1987/88) only 3 Kentucky&#039;s known (could more, but I only see 2 on PCGS, and can&#039;t find pop report for NGC). My guess is that sales in KY weren&#039;t good, as Kentuckians may have wanted to not be considered a Confederate State, and the marketing board may have felt it not worth doing it in Missouri? There is also a small possibility that if they were offered in Missouri, they may have carried the same MISS as Mississippi, so the two states would have been intermingled, and only one set of numbers produced? That again is pure conjecture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a feeling that this will forever be a numismatic mystery, unless some information that is tucked away in a basement filing cabinet somewhere gets unearthed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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