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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2702610, member: 112&quot;]Highly unlikely for several reasons, one of which has already been explained. Here is another, those leather holders were almost certainly produced and sold by some 3rd party either at the exposition itself, or even after the exposition was over.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You kind of answered your own question. But there&#039;s more to it than that. Even though some of the coins are dated 1892, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893 and ran until Oct. 30, 1893. So the &#039;92 coins, 950,000 of them, were definitely made before the exposition opened. And it&#039;s quite possible, even likely, the 1.5 million &#039;93 coins were as well. The question then becomes when were all those coins shipped to the exposition officials, and was it all it once or broken into several shipments ? But either way it&#039;s a pretty safe bet that at least a large percentage of them were shipped long before the opening. That means the coins had to have been stored, probably in a bank someplace nearby. And then once it opened, they were shipped in smaller quantities to the exposition itself, likely on a daily basis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Add all of this up and there&#039;s a multitude of ways, times, and places where the coins were mixed and matched and distributed in no certain order.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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