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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 622973, member: 19250"]Hi Noost , thanks for the welcome! Yes the 1938 proof Jeffersons price range is around the amounts you noted. However these panels were done by Fleix Schlag are prized by collectors.Again only 150 were made. I have also read that Schlag himself had a hard time getting the 150 proof nickels at the time to have the panels made. It was a good bad thing for him being selected to be the artist picked to design the nickel. The award was $1000.00 paid to him for his design....however he had been a starving artist ...his design was accepted then asked to be reworked. He was also helping out a friend who was taken sick and later died ...some of the money awarded was used by Schlag to help pay off his friends medical needs later his funeral! Not to say that $1000.USD was  not a nice chunk of change durring the post depression error.  Money always seems to slip thought our fingers no matter if it's in 1930 dollars or 2009 dollars! LOL as a college student in the early 70's I remember living off of $20.00 @ week TG for peanut butter! Paddy[/QUOTE]