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Message:: [QUOTE="BRandM, post: 2444768, member: 22729"]I can't add much to what Bill has already said, except I did find another possible issuer. There was a 23 year old mechanic with this name living in a boarding house in Winchester, MA in the 1860 Federal Census. No way to tell if he was the issuer or not, but it's a possibility. I couldn't trace him any later Brunk's new edition still lists only the two same specimens, again without an attribution. Yours, then, is only the third documented. What I found interesting was that he also listed an H.J. Cory (C-953) with one example stamped on an 1854 Half Dollar. Same time frame as J.C.'S piece, so possibly they're related. I searched for both names thinking I might find one of them and could somehow link him to the other. Unfortunately, I had no luck with that line of research. I agree with Bill's estimation of when Cory's coins were struck. I doubt they were done after 1865 at the latest. I'll look a bit more later, but this is a tough one. Bruce[/QUOTE]