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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2214552, member: 66&quot;]Correct, once the war ended the Mint immediately ordered planchets from Bolton.&nbsp; They arrived in December 1815 and they immediately began striking cents.&nbsp; Most likely using dies dated 1816.&nbsp; They may have used 1814 dies, but after a year and a half or more there would be a fair chance those dies may have rusted, also they would be using the 1816 dies in just a few days anyway.&nbsp; (In the high humidity of Philadelphia the tool steel of the dies tended to develop rust fairly quickly.)&nbsp; Not knowing when the planchets would be arriving they would not have made 1815 dies, but they knew they would have them in 1816 so they probably did have 1816 dies ready.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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