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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 169831, member: 6229"]You know the U.S.had a branch mint in New Orleans, Lousiana.You, also know Lousiana was a Southern State, seceded from the Union in 1861 and became a member of The Confederate States of America. Do you know that all the dies for new coinage struck by the branch mints in 1861 were made by the Philadelphia Mint? Here's nine things you may not have realized: 1. New Orleans Struck 2,532,633 Liberty Seated Half Dollars during 1861. 2. 330,000 of those were struck at New Orleans before Louisana seceded from the Union in January, 1861 3. After secession, before Louisana became a Confederate State, New Orleans struck 1,240,000 1861-O Half Dollars. 4. After Louisana became a Confederate State New Orleans struck 962,000 1861-O halves fulfilling their contract with the Union just before the mint was seized by the Confederacy. 5. Since all the dies were made by the Philly Mint, there is no way to tell which were struck when. The're alike. 6. Some of those 1861-O halves were struck with a die whose obverse had cracked during it's use. 7. The halves with the die crack (running from nose to the rim) sell for a premium. 8. New Orleans did not strike Union coins again until 1879. 9. It did, however, strike Confederate half dollars using the Union's "crack-on-the-obverse" die. Click for image: <a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/1861o_half_dollar.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/1861o_half_dollar.htm" rel="nofollow">www.coinfacts.com/half_dollars/seated_liberty_half_dollars/1861o_half_dollar.htm</a> Clinker[/QUOTE]

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