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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1697729, member: 66&quot;]The 5 million was a private sale from Legend to an unnamed collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t even buy that that 1794 was a presentation piece.&nbsp; I think the die had probably been polished to strike a presentation coin and&nbsp; the current coin is just showing the results of that polishing.&nbsp; I still can&#039;t buy that if you are creating a high prestige presentation coin that you would use an underweight planchet that had been holed and plugged, then had a file scraped across it because the plugging had made it overweight.&nbsp; You would pick through the planchets and find a good one that was within spec without having to be adjusted and then you would polish and strike it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After the presentation piece was struck you would strike other coins and that is where the twice worked over planchet came from.&nbsp; After striking a few more (one?)&nbsp; the die cracked or clashed or something and had to be dismounted and then remounted tipped resulting in the left hand side weakness seen on most specimens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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