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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hwdbob, post: 74925, member: 3060&quot;]Hello GDJMSP,Thanks for the forum &amp; the reply.You may be right that its a legend.But why did the mint add &quot;cents&quot; to the die if there&#039;s not a kernel of truth to the story.I always figured there was more than one josh tatum and at the time the Roman numeral V was more commonly used and in 1883 there were still a lot of people who could not read so if some enterprising individual were to dip this coin in gold flake it could be easily passed as a gold coin to the less discerning so long as the one passing was quick on their departure .</p><p>Anyway as I posted on a different thread I am growing increasingly amazed at the lengths guys go to pass off counterfeit coins,but it has been going on since the first guy made a coin and his neighbor saw he could make a better one &amp; cheaper &amp; someone would give him something for it .Bob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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