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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 360030, member: 112&quot;]Frank - </p><p><br /></p><p>If you read what it says about the Scott restrike - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Scott obtained the original Confederate States of America half dollar die in the 1870s, and proceeded to make 500 restrikes from the die in soft white metal, with an advertising inscription for Scott on the obverse and the impression of the Confederate die on the reverse.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So those struck by Scott with the advertising inscription are readily reconized. <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/confederate_coins/confederate_coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/confederate_coins/confederate_coins.htm" rel="nofollow">THESE</a> But ....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&quot;After these pieces were struck, he obtained 500 Seated half dollars dated 1861 (ostensibly from the New Orleans mint), planed off the reverse of each coin, and struck 500 examples with the regular Seated half dollar design on the obverse and the Confederate half design on the reverse. The obverse was slightly flattened on each resulting example (hence the restrikes are graded by the reverse only), but collectors could then obtain a specimen with the same obverse and reverse designs, and struck from the same reverse die, that was originally intended for a proposed Confederate coinage.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>..... these coins were struck with the original Confederate die. And thus are true to the original design - with 19 buds. <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/confederate_coins/1861_scott_restrike.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/confederate_coins/1861_scott_restrike.htm" rel="nofollow">These</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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