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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3118507, member: 86305&quot;]This is speculation at this point on my part, but I have a little experience from my other project.&nbsp; Reconstruction in New Orleans was a difficult time and in researching the 1881-O Morgan I did some work on the Mint personnel.&nbsp; It took a lot of time and effort, but eventually I was able to complete a profile of just about every Mint employee. <a href="http://www.1881o.com/mint_personnel.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.1881o.com/mint_personnel.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.1881o.com/mint_personnel.html</a>&nbsp; There was a lot of tricky stuff with transfers from Washington, nepotism, and other issues, and I am sure that the same stuff went on at the Philadelphia Mint in that era.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it takes some government records that so far I have not been able to locate for the Philadelphia Mint in 1925.&nbsp; In 1881 they still published a list of every Federal employee.&nbsp; But by 1925 either the government was so large that this was no longer practical or we just have not found the right source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once the source is located I have the resources to see if the Mint employees are descendants of veterans (maybe veterans, but highly unlikely).&nbsp; My speculation right now is that the errors we see may be more related to the die creation, which in my opinion was sloppy at best.&nbsp; It was not done at the Mint and apparently the annealing/tempering process was not properly done, or the die steel was not of good quality.&nbsp; This shows on many coins where the die seems to have collapsed.&nbsp; I will post more on this at some later date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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