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<p>[QUOTE="Tim C, post: 3577475, member: 71569"]Both designers of the Kennedy half dollar, Gilroy Roberts and Frank Gasparro, documented / recorded their involvement with the creation of the Kennedy half dollar within months of their production at the request of Eva Adams, the Director of the US Mint. I have no reason to doubt their recollections, they were written within a reasonable time frame while the events were still fresh in their memories.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to why the accents were removed from the Proof dies shortly after the start of production is a question we may never learn the answer to. Just speculation on my part, but I wonder if by creating a new master hub to fix the broken serif of the I in LIBERTY, the accents that Mrs. Kennedy had suggested were just omitted from the new master hub by the engraver. </p><p><br /></p><p>But getting back to the title of this thread, “The Best 64 Kennedy”. Can anyone imagine locating / documenting either the fist trial strike shown to Mrs. Kennedy and her brother in-law Robert Kennedy or the second trial strike shown to Secretary Dillon showing the execution of the suggestions made by Mrs. Kennedy? Or better yet, both trial strikes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tim C, post: 3577475, member: 71569"]Both designers of the Kennedy half dollar, Gilroy Roberts and Frank Gasparro, documented / recorded their involvement with the creation of the Kennedy half dollar within months of their production at the request of Eva Adams, the Director of the US Mint. I have no reason to doubt their recollections, they were written within a reasonable time frame while the events were still fresh in their memories. As to why the accents were removed from the Proof dies shortly after the start of production is a question we may never learn the answer to. Just speculation on my part, but I wonder if by creating a new master hub to fix the broken serif of the I in LIBERTY, the accents that Mrs. Kennedy had suggested were just omitted from the new master hub by the engraver. But getting back to the title of this thread, “The Best 64 Kennedy”. Can anyone imagine locating / documenting either the fist trial strike shown to Mrs. Kennedy and her brother in-law Robert Kennedy or the second trial strike shown to Secretary Dillon showing the execution of the suggestions made by Mrs. Kennedy? Or better yet, both trial strikes?[/QUOTE]
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