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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ken454, post: 1883284, member: 56575&quot;]ok heres my entry, an 1883 no cents liberty head nickel, i always find the story behind this nickel somewhat amusing about how it was gold plated and passed off as a five dollar coin, the most famous i believe is about the deaf mute josh tatum who gold plated these and hand cut a reeded edge onto it and would then buy a 5 cent cigar and receive $4.95 in change and got away with it because he never actually said it was 5 dollars, he could&#039;nt, he was mute, he just &quot;assumed&quot; that the 4.95 in change was a gift and all charges against him were dropped. now whether this story is true or not, i think it adds quite an interesting history to this coin. so the gold plated nickels were called &quot;racketeer nickels&quot; and charles barber had to quickly prepare a new design, this time placing CENTS in big, bold letters below the V.</p><p>as for a grade? im not too good at that, it looks good, has some nice luster in hand so maybe it will make MS, but that really does&#039;nt concern me all that much, im more concern with having this coin encapsulated and authenticated so it looks good when i pass it on to my son along with the story behind it...and thanks for the contest.. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]319855[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]319856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]319857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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