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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joey from Da Bronx, post: 2163446, member: 74701&quot;]OK, here it is. I was just looking through my recently purchased book, &#039;The Official Red Book- A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents&#039;, by Q. David Bowers, and found something interesting. In discussing the removal of the &#039;V.D.B.&#039; initials on the reverse, he quotes a letter the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury C.D. Norton sent to that the letters can&#039;t be erased from the mother die because it is intaglio, and it would take at least 14 days to make a new one:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This delay can be avoided by simply erasing the V.D.B. from the hub and having no B whatever on the coin. <i>From the amended hub</i> (italics mine) the coinage dies can be rapidly and promptly struck off within three days and the mint can continue the coinage of the pennies for which there is great demand...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure sounds to me like they used the hub that still had remnants of the &#039;V.D.B.&#039; on it to make the working dies.</p><p>Charles Barber, designer of the Barber dimes, quarters and halves, didn&#039;t want just the initial &#039;B&#039; (for Brenner) on the cent because he was afraid people would think it stood for &#039;Barber&#039;, and he was opposed to the minting of the Lincoln cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy the book before the coin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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