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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2171708, member: 66&quot;]The owner of a 1913 V nickel that died in an auto accident was George Walton.&nbsp; The Bebee specimen of the 1913 V nickel is in the ANA museum collection, Bebee donated it to them.&nbsp; While Bebee may have passed his nickel around at the Clearwater club, the coin best known for being passed around like that was the James McDermott specimen.&nbsp; McDermott would pass the coin around at club meeting, at shows, in bars (!), anywhere someone would ask him about it.&nbsp; And it often wasn&#039;t in any kind of holder when he passed it around (Which is the reason it is the only one of the five that actually shows wear on the coin.)&nbsp; McDermott also loaned out the coin to clubs to display at their shows that he would not be attending.&nbsp; the Old Fort club in Fort Wayne IN once asked to borrow it.&nbsp; it showed up in the mail in a 2X2 attached to a piece of cardboard in a standard envelope.&nbsp; Sent first class mail, no insurance!&nbsp; (Needless to say it did NOT go back the same way!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Along with Bob Hendershott&#039;s other claims to fame is he also wrote the standard catalog on memorabilia of the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair.&nbsp; (Which he attended!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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