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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3595443, member: 101855&quot;]John D. Lovett, who worked out of New York City, cut the dies for the obverse of this piece. He most likely had never seen Lincoln and was working from a photograph. That was how most of these 1860 dies were cut.</p><p><br /></p><p>The photo of Lincoln that is in the ferrotype I posted above was cropped from a Lincoln photo that Mathew Brady took of him when he spoke at the Cooper Union Hall in February 1860. Here is the original photo, a mirror image of the photo and a final cropping.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961369[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961370[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961371[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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