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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2347294, member: 66&quot;]Hate to think what it would look like today if the Egyptian Government hadn&#039;t pulled it from the sale in 1954.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t understand this is how the viewing went.</p><p><br /></p><p>Say you have a lot of 60 double eagles with dates and mints as so and so.&nbsp; You want to see the lot.&nbsp; So here is a tray of the sixty coins just laying loose in the tray, no holders.&nbsp; But before you can see them they have to count them (make sure none are missing) So they have another tray and they pick up the coins one at a time and drop them into the other tray, and onto the previously counted coins &quot;One (clank), two (clank), three (clank), four (thud)&quot; and so on up to sixty.&nbsp; You look at them and hand them back.&nbsp; But security, they have to count them again (clank, clank, clank, thud, thud, thud.....)&nbsp; Then the next viewer asks to see them and the whole process repeats itself!&nbsp; Can you imagine what those coins looked like after a couple dozen viewings?&nbsp; And the 1933 was originally in just such a multi coin grouping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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