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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ConfederateHalf, post: 1359911, member: 27946&quot;]Yes - that&#039;s it.&nbsp; The listing reads a little fishy and I don&#039;t buy the story about them inheriting it from a relative, but then again, who knows....it could be true since the seller is located in Spokane, Washington.&nbsp; The holder looks authentic, though not as impressive as I had hoped.&nbsp; It looks a lot like all those Kennedy half dollar holders from the 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; My concern with this item is that the silver dollar contained inside is probably not an original one from the display.&nbsp; According to the seller, it is a very worn 1900 Morgan.&nbsp; I was under the impression that all these silver dollars in the display came from a vault in the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, so I&#039;m thinking this should be an uncirculated specimen if it was orignal.&nbsp; The date is right, (1904 or before), but the condition is suspicious.&nbsp; It would be very easy for the seller to have removed the mint state original to sell at a higher price and then substitute a dog with the holder to get more money for the junky Morgan.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m still debating whether or not to bid on this lot.&nbsp; The only real reason to bid would be to obtain an example of the holder, but the price is way too high.&nbsp; I&#039;m not wild about the idea of having to bid on a bunch of other junk quality silver just to get this plastic holder.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the resale value being substantial enough to be worth that, although I suppose I could re-sell the junk and just keep the holder as a souvenir, but that&#039;s not what I was really after.&nbsp; I wanted an original dollar from the display in its original holder.&nbsp; Given the type of holder this is, (i.e. not a tamper-proof slab), I guess there is not much of a chance of finding something like that with any high degree of confidence.&nbsp; Oh well....</p><p><br /></p><p>It was still fun to have finally found a picture of one of these.&nbsp; It confirms that they really did sell them through the mail after the fair, just as the old news reports previously indicated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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