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Posted 01/18/2011 03:00 am
new thought along the die break theme.( BTW if anyone thinks these should be moved, feel free.
problems in 1887:
first, there were over 25 million coins minted that year, more then all other years almost combined. They added the mint in New Orleans into this for the first time too. so now we have P, O, CC, S and D all turn and burn with the Morgans.
and lets add a little competition in the work place. who's gonna get the design? the newly imported Morgan, or the rooster of US coin design, Barber, had his son working on one. Without much more than a glance or two, Morgan, the teachers obvious pet, got the nod.
In fact, the Boss, Lindeman, wrote in several letters he thought Barber lacked talent. Ya think that didn't get around? LOL.
Now I, as well as many of you have seen when the favorite son doesn't get the nod, weird things can happen. Unhappy, insulted workers, and there is more than one letter written in a jump over of rank By Morgan that suggests trouble in Mint city.
the final design was official on Feb.21, the order was given to roll the press,( so to speak), Feb.28 with the first proof handed over on mar.7th. My guess is things went 24/7 for a while.
So, they have all these dies to make and ship all over the country, plus several changes were made on the reverse, all the dies were made in Philly because, the chief die maker( forget the name), didn't think the other mints could handle it. So all dies, and new dies, and changes, and hubs were all made in Philly, while in April, instructions were sent to the machine shops at the other mints.
It takes a while to get the meatloaf to come out right. a-ham. a few tries over the rest of 87 and the beginning of 88 befor all the HUB bub ( ha ha), seems to have settled down.
So many dies, so little time. Half the work force in Philly was was mad at the other half.Overworked, tired,angry, irritated men ...I can almost smell the testosterone from here. It's no wonder the dies broke so fast.
There's more, but it would require me to get into politics and congress, both make me want to puke right now.
I realize much of my history paper is supposition, but it's based in facts we know from letters written by both Lindman, and Morgan, as well as a couple newspaper articles, and info from the Red Book of Morgans.Also, a really OLD set of encyclopedia Britannica that I had to get up in the attic and hunt for. .. never mind. It's not to be taken as gospel, but perhaps rather obvious reason for such a mess with the 1887 dies.
please, correct and fire at will!
problems in 1887:
first, there were over 25 million coins minted that year, more then all other years almost combined. They added the mint in New Orleans into this for the first time too. so now we have P, O, CC, S and D all turn and burn with the Morgans.
and lets add a little competition in the work place. who's gonna get the design? the newly imported Morgan, or the rooster of US coin design, Barber, had his son working on one. Without much more than a glance or two, Morgan, the teachers obvious pet, got the nod.
In fact, the Boss, Lindeman, wrote in several letters he thought Barber lacked talent. Ya think that didn't get around? LOL.
Now I, as well as many of you have seen when the favorite son doesn't get the nod, weird things can happen. Unhappy, insulted workers, and there is more than one letter written in a jump over of rank By Morgan that suggests trouble in Mint city.
the final design was official on Feb.21, the order was given to roll the press,( so to speak), Feb.28 with the first proof handed over on mar.7th. My guess is things went 24/7 for a while.
So, they have all these dies to make and ship all over the country, plus several changes were made on the reverse, all the dies were made in Philly because, the chief die maker( forget the name), didn't think the other mints could handle it. So all dies, and new dies, and changes, and hubs were all made in Philly, while in April, instructions were sent to the machine shops at the other mints.
It takes a while to get the meatloaf to come out right. a-ham. a few tries over the rest of 87 and the beginning of 88 befor all the HUB bub ( ha ha), seems to have settled down.
So many dies, so little time. Half the work force in Philly was was mad at the other half.Overworked, tired,angry, irritated men ...I can almost smell the testosterone from here. It's no wonder the dies broke so fast.
There's more, but it would require me to get into politics and congress, both make me want to puke right now.
I realize much of my history paper is supposition, but it's based in facts we know from letters written by both Lindman, and Morgan, as well as a couple newspaper articles, and info from the Red Book of Morgans.Also, a really OLD set of encyclopedia Britannica that I had to get up in the attic and hunt for. .. never mind. It's not to be taken as gospel, but perhaps rather obvious reason for such a mess with the 1887 dies.
please, correct and fire at will!
not 7A or 7...keep trying!
which confirms its identy....
