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Message:: [QUOTE="HandsomeToad, post: 357215, member: 12965"]Funny to mention this at this time because I was researching this very coin last night. Someone else has described a coin like the one you described but they didn't say anything about it being two halves soldered together to make one coin, although that would have been a crude way to make a coin. Here's what was said (copy-paste): spiropoulos   half dollar 1861 CONFEDERATE r. lovett's coin off to the left of the liberty side along the shoe, is an engraved l, not punched. 4. Mine has 17 buds on the left corn stalk, not 19 as others. ALL OTHERS HAVE 19,INCLUDING RESTRIKES. and ANS COIN*** 5. When flipped over top to bottom, most coins remain in upright positions not so with mine, They reverse themselfs, size is 28mm, the normal half dollar is 30, The restrikes, and so called orginals are 30 mm, mine 28 mm This accounts why a hand press had to be used, To small for the coining press. This was done to prove a new obverse, since it was so similar to the federal obverse. 6. The T, I believe represents taylor, The M,represents Memmenger. Two coins with the T this is the one with M also, Memmenger's coin, that went to Memmenger, it has a crack through date, and nose to rim. mine has a fine crack from nose to rim, AND ALSO CRACK THROUGH DATE AND HALF DOL. CRACK FROM NOSE TO RIM and from between liberty leg and first star, seen under high resolution, on obverse the top of shield, blank in the ans coin, mine has a forcepts type of tool, IN TOP OF SHIELD ON CONFEDERATE SIDE IS A HEMOSTSAT A DOCTORS TOOL, TAYLOR WAS A DOCTOR Perhaps with the T, wanted to show his trademark, he was a doctor, It has a T, stamped is to the right of the date. An medical inst. in shield.A capital M, as part of the coin, not stamped as T is. Orginal, or copies that he said he made, as stated in the Taylor to Wright letters the letters that cannot be found and verified.  The orginal letters cannot be found from Taylor to Wright, see below from Wash.D.C. and Phil. The ones accepted but not found, many have been stolen, lost, or misfiled. stating many were submitted, and only one chosen. The descripition does not go into fine details. What was choosen, mine fits that description given As stated in letters not located but accepted, as the base foundation for the very exsistance of 1861 conf. half dollar.   Here's a website with one that claims the coin displayed & discussed is an orginal Lovett's 1861 Half-Dollar similar to the one described above: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/losalexspirop/lovett_part_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.geocities.com/losalexspirop/lovett_part_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.com/losalexspirop/lovett_part_1.html</a> I've also seen a similar coin for sale on iOffer but both look too much like cast copies and the original restrikes were done with the original dies using milled <a href="http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/half_dollar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/half_dollar.html" rel="nofollow">1861-O Seated Liberty Half-Dollars</a> (worth into the thousands and supposedly only 500 made), so I'm leary of these that appear to be cast copies but there may be something to them. Ribbit,Toad <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Ps: Pictures - Pictures - Pictures. We want to see it. :kewl:[/QUOTE]

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