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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 1457897, member: 23692&quot;]No, that story is not real.&nbsp; If anyone believes that mint records, even now, are accurate, then I have hundreds and hundreds of &quot;rarities&quot; that I can sell you.&nbsp; The 3 &quot;specimen&quot; coins, and probably a fourth (the one in the Nat&#039;l museum) were backdoored to cover the ones that Pittman later came up with and the &quot;official mint records&quot; were semi-midnighted.&nbsp; When you talk to people with personal relationships or relatives with mint employees, the whole story behind the 36 dot was a CYA or plausible rationalation.&nbsp; You do not have a 1:678,000 chance of it being real.&nbsp; There were many other coins that seemed to have &quot;fallen into a shoe&quot; and then made it home.&nbsp; It certainly is not a coincidence that most all landed up in the Pittman collection without ever having been on the market.... or in other mint employee &quot;friends&quot; hands.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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