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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 958066, member: 66"]But during those ten years there were two different heads and three different reverse types. There may have also been something of a personal financial reason.  Reich had sold himself into indentured servitude in order to get passage to America.  Patterson bought Reich's servitude contract.  A good paying job would allow Paterson to get his money back quicker. It was also said that th model for the Classic head Liberty was Reich's "fat mistress".  I have no idea if that is true or not. Boulton and Watt had been supplying copper planchets to the mint since 1797. The last of the planchets were used to strike the 1814 Classics.  As soon as the War of 1812 ended (early 1815) the mint ordered more planchets  from B&W but they did not arrive until December 1815.  Production of 1816 Matron head cents began that month. The last year the mint had struck half cents was in 1811 and they were then out of planchets.  But half cents were not in much demand and no more were needed until 1825.  By that time Scot had died so they just continued using the old design.  Mintages were small enough and infrequent enough that there was no real reason to create the tools for a new design.  It remained that way until Gobrecht redesigned everything in the 1836 - 1840 period.[/QUOTE]