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<p>[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 8639480, member: 104064"][USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] These stories get confused and conflated over time. Sort of like the ice cream story with the 1894-S dime I suppose. <a href="https://media.stacksbowers.com/VirtualCatalogs/CatalogLibrary/SBG_1913_Nickel_Supplement_LR.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://media.stacksbowers.com/VirtualCatalogs/CatalogLibrary/SBG_1913_Nickel_Supplement_LR.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://media.stacksbowers.com/VirtualCatalogs/CatalogLibrary/SBG_1913_Nickel_Supplement_LR.pdf</a> is such a detailed (but long) reference that I'd recommend it again. I know there are entire books written about these coins. From that reference, the 8 coin case originated with Nagy, went to Col. Green, and ended up with Newman. From there it's not clear where that case went, although Newman still had it in 2005. The car crash coin was the Walton example, but I don't see any reference to a case for that example. From the link:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The speculation on when the case had to have been made is an interesting tidbit. Also interesting is that Walton had a fake one that he used for casual passing around, and his real one was then presumed to be fake for a long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 8639480, member: 104064"][USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER] These stories get confused and conflated over time. Sort of like the ice cream story with the 1894-S dime I suppose. [URL]https://media.stacksbowers.com/VirtualCatalogs/CatalogLibrary/SBG_1913_Nickel_Supplement_LR.pdf[/URL] is such a detailed (but long) reference that I'd recommend it again. I know there are entire books written about these coins. From that reference, the 8 coin case originated with Nagy, went to Col. Green, and ended up with Newman. From there it's not clear where that case went, although Newman still had it in 2005. The car crash coin was the Walton example, but I don't see any reference to a case for that example. From the link: The speculation on when the case had to have been made is an interesting tidbit. Also interesting is that Walton had a fake one that he used for casual passing around, and his real one was then presumed to be fake for a long time.[/QUOTE]
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