Rare 1861 Confederate Cent – Bashlow Restrike Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 46.00 Time Left - Bid Count 6 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, October 06, 2008 End Time Monday, October 13, 2008 Location New Jersey See more about 'Rare 1861 Confederate Cent – Bashlow Restrike ' Description Attic Items Home Page BOX CODE TITLE FOLLOWS Miss Annette’s Place BOX CODE TITLE ENDS Rare 1861 Confederate Cent – Bashlow Restrike Comments: Each week or so we place for auction or sale items that will enhance your collections. We have purchased a complete US Type collection consisting of hundreds of coins, including many gold pieces. This collection has almost every type coin, and all are in very nice condition. So the next few weeks we will be placing these up for your consideration. We know these will please many collectors. Presented for Auction is this 1861 Civil War Confederate Cent – Bashlow restrike. The following history is taken from www.rebelstatescurrency.com. In 1861, an official of the Confederate States of America contacted Bailey & Co. of Philadelphia concerning supplying one cent pieces for the Confederacy. Bailey & Co. commissioned Robert Lovett, a well known medalist and token maker from the same city who had previously designed a cent sized token featuring the profile of "Miss Liberty," as the person to design the new CSA coin and make the dies. Lovett adopted his "Miss Liberty" head for the obverse of a cent, with CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA surrounding the profile and the date below. The reverse design was in the form of a wreath with a bale of cotton below on which was the initial of the engraver, L. Within the wreath was "1 CENT." Lovett struck 12 pattern pieces in copper-nickel, the alloy being used at the time to make United States Indian Head cents. Fearing treason charges from Union authorities for aiding the Confederacy, he cancelled the project and hid the 12 coins until after the War when he carried around one of the coins as a pocket piece. In 1873, Lovett, who was now an alcoholic, spent the Confederate cent by mistake in a Philadelphia bar. The bartender recognized the piece as being unusual, and showed it to a few individuals who who eventually made contact with John Haseltine. Haseltine bought the coin and contacted Robert Lovett to buy any remaining coins. Lovett denied any knowledge of the coin until one evening when he was “drunk and goaded beyond endurance, confessed all….” At this point, Lovett unearthed the remaining coins and dies and sold the entire lot to Haseltine. Haseltine took the dies to Peter Kinder of Philadelphia to make restrikes of the Confederate cent. After seven gold, twelve silver, and 54 copper restrikes had been made, the dies broke on the 55th copper strike. No copper-nickel alloy restrikes were made to preserve the integrity of the original dozen coined by Lovett. For years the dies were thought to have been destroyed but in 1961 they surfaced in the hands of Robert Bashlow, a New York City coin dealer. The obverse die had been defaced by hammer blows and the reverse by chisel cuts. Bashlow had August C. Frank & Co. of Philadelphia make transfer dies and strike 30,156 copies in a variety of metals in time for the Civil War centennial. Known as the Bashlow "second restrikes," they are the final run of Confederate cents. Following his 1961 production strikes, Bashlow donated both dies to the Smithsonian Institute where they currently reside. My opinion is a beautiful BU CH RED example, but please look at pictures and judge quality for your self. This coin will make a wonderful addition to any collection and is a great investment. Please check our site often; we put up new items almost weekly and be sure to check out our store. – Thank You. 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