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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;okbustchaser, post: 2537541, member: 72642&quot;]The original racketeer nickels had carefully done reeded edges rather than plain which is usually the easiest way to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, although there definitely were cases where the type 1 V nickel was gold plated and passed at the time, the Josh Tatum story was probably made up in the early 1960s.&nbsp; Nowhere does it exist in print prior to about &#039;65.&nbsp; The 1880 Federal census lists only 4 people named &quot;Josh Tatum&quot; living in the U.S.--none of whom were deaf mutes.&nbsp; Nor is there any record of a Boston court case involving him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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