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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 847451, member: 23874&quot;]Totally right Conder.&nbsp; I just didn&#039;t want to be the one perceived as having rained on the guy&#039;s parade! :whistle:</p><p><br /></p><p>Pursuant to Bowers, written in the <u>Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins</u> (2009), Q. David Bowers: </p><blockquote><p>&quot;Modern scholarship has suggested that the dies were newly created about 1859 or 1860 by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut.&nbsp; These copies, dated 1787 and similar in general appearance to the originals, differ in detail and, most particularly, have narrow rather than wide rings on the reverse.&nbsp; Neither restrikes nor from New Haven, these are usually seen in a brassy alloy, sometimes called copper.&nbsp; Silver impressions are rarer, and gold rarer yet.&quot;</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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