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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 757599, member: 15309&quot;]T$,</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;T&quot; &amp; &quot;W&quot; designations were created in early 2000 in an attempt to help identify toned and untoned coins.&nbsp; The designations were discontinued in late 2002.&nbsp; Here is a link to the press release from NGC about discontinuing the &quot;W&quot; designation.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=327" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=327" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=327</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Essentially, the &quot;T&quot; designation became the star designation.&nbsp; As far as the reason why you have not seen many of them, most have probably been re-slabbed and now bear the star designation instead of a &quot;T&quot; designation.&nbsp; NGC&#039;s policy is to remove the &quot;T&quot; designation when they re-slab a coin.&nbsp; I however am lucky enough to own an Appalachian Jefferson that NGC messed up the label.&nbsp; They gave this coin both designations.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels/JeffersonNickel1945-DNGCMS67Star-4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another cool feature of this coin is the Bingham pedigree.&nbsp; Gregg Bingham played linebacker in the NFL for the Houtson Oilers and became a big time coin collector after his retirement.&nbsp; His collection consists primarily of monster toned commemoratives with monster grades.&nbsp; The fact that he owned this coin is a testament to it&#039;s quality.&nbsp; Some collectors think that slab pedigrees are silly, unless the name is Eliasberg.&nbsp; IMO, Bingham might be on the same level as Eliasberg with regards to toned coins, specifically toned commemorative s.&nbsp; Here is a link to his NGC classic commemorative set.&nbsp; Look if you dare.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=1648" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=1648" rel="nofollow">http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=1648</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that someone informed Gregg that Appalachian Jeffersons were AT and he dumped them.&nbsp; I currently own four of them with his pedigree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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