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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael K, post: 3223489, member: 78298&quot;]Here are some comments about that from another site:</p><p><br /></p><p>His initials were never authorized. He added them to the original design after approval so once the Mint caught it they ordered it removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The initials were too prominent on the coin and they felt that an individual shouldn&#039;t have credit like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe Brenner wasn&#039;t even a Mint &#039;employee&#039;, but was more of a sub-contractor. People flipped when his initials appeared and considered it &quot;advertising&quot; and complained enough to get it removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seemed that the initials were too &quot;prominent&quot;. Charles Barber, Chief Engraver at the Philadelphia Mint was instructed to remove them, move them, or at least to truncate them.</p><p>His solution not to relocate the initials lasted till 1918, when upon his death, George Morgan (the Silver Dollar guy) engraved them inconspicuously under Lincoln&#039;s shoulder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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