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<p>[QUOTE="Tim C, post: 3575983, member: 71569"]Negative . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>If you read the timeline from the <i><u>Reminiscences on the Creation of the Kennedy Half Dollar</u></i> by Gilroy Roberts, you will notice that the trial strikes were shown to Mrs. Kennedy on December 17th who suggested “it would be an improvement if the part in the hair, on the portrait, was less pronounced and more accents were added”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gilroy goes on to write that, “Mrs. Kennedy’s suggestions were carried out on the intermediate size and another trial die was made for the obverse.” On December 27th Roberts flew to West Palm Beach where Secretary Dillon and his wife inspected the new trial strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The proof dies were not made until after Secretary Dillon inspected the second trial strikes, “It was decided to proceed with tooling up for production.” </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mint-engravers-recollection-of-kennedy-half-dollar-production" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mint-engravers-recollection-of-kennedy-half-dollar-production" rel="nofollow">https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mint-engravers-recollection-of-kennedy-half-dollar-production</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tim C, post: 3575983, member: 71569"]Negative . . . If you read the timeline from the [I][U]Reminiscences on the Creation of the Kennedy Half Dollar[/U][/I] by Gilroy Roberts, you will notice that the trial strikes were shown to Mrs. Kennedy on December 17th who suggested “it would be an improvement if the part in the hair, on the portrait, was less pronounced and more accents were added”. Gilroy goes on to write that, “Mrs. Kennedy’s suggestions were carried out on the intermediate size and another trial die was made for the obverse.” On December 27th Roberts flew to West Palm Beach where Secretary Dillon and his wife inspected the new trial strikes. The proof dies were not made until after Secretary Dillon inspected the second trial strikes, “It was decided to proceed with tooling up for production.” [URL]https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mint-engravers-recollection-of-kennedy-half-dollar-production[/URL][/QUOTE]
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