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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 1686799, member: 17094&quot;]Actually, the Lincoln cent design galvanos of engraver Victor David Brenner, as submitted to the Mint, had BRENNER spelled out in small letters at the bottom rim on the reverse. This was abbreviated to V.D.B. at the Mint, without the designer&#039;s knowledge. When the coins debuted in August 1909, Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh remarked that he thought the designer&#039;s initials would be an incused B, in the manner of the B for Charles Barber on the bust truncation of the Barber coinage. But there was no way that the notoriously obstructionist chief engraver Charles Barber, who objected to any outside designers, would allow a single initial B to confuse his designs with those of others. So the initials were removed entirely. It is no accident that they were restored to the shoulder of Lincoln cents in 1918, the year after Barber died. </p><p><br /></p><p>Best Regards, :hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>George[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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