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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 1056807, member: 6036&quot;]Interesting piece of trivia right there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry Voigt is credited with engraving these dies. Problem is, he was a coiner, not an engraver; those skill sets are quite different. Since an engraver could not be found, Voigt was pressed into service. For obvious reasons, the design had to as simple as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the really amazing part - there was no master hub or die of any kind. The design was first sketched directly onto the die face and engraved right there. For this reason, the portrait of Liberty is quite different on each die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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