robec1347

"Barber’s reverse has the dot between D and B closest to the D. Brenner’s reverse the dot is centered." This is incorrect. ALL the reverse hubs with "V.D.B" were made by Charles Barber. Brenner's hub had "Brenner" in the same position. This was rejected and Barber merely replaced "Brenner" with the initials. (See Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915 for details and photos.) I’m not sure whose design is which. My response supposing that Barber’s version differs Brenner’s was based solely on the fact there are two versions of the VDB reverse, one with the filled N and centered dot between the D and B and one with the deep cut N and the dot closer to the D. Peace1 attributed Barber with one and Brenner with the other. If Barber was the creator of both I’m fine with that. Both versions exist with the Philadelphia coin. The San Francisco version only come with the filled N, centered dot.

Haven’t received it yet…….I hope it looks as nice as the picture.

I believe he thinks he has one of those 1964 SMS Kennedy halves. Who’s going to tell him?

What a shame. I don’t know of anything that would totally bring them back.

I hope you aren’t really leaving. I honestly enjoy your posts.

Looks more BN than RD. The scratches are are after it left the mint, not a minting error.

Or maybe Pennsylvania

How did you become the recipient of this presentation piece? And a presentation to what or what for?