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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1099441, member: 66&quot;]No the thing was that when he designed the coin he didn&#039;t know that he was allowed to put his initials on it and so he didn&#039;t do it.&nbsp; The Mint simply made the coin as it was and no one ever petitioned to have the initials added until the mid sixties when the people at Coin World did it..</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint was agreeable, they added the initials and made a little ceremony out of it with Schlag and the media&nbsp; and Schlag was presented with the first two nickels struck bearing his initials. (These two coins are often described as having been proofs.&nbsp; They were not.&nbsp; They were just prooflike, being the first two strikes off a brand new die.)&nbsp; Unfortunately Schlag did not bother to keep track of the two coins and by the time of his death their location was unknown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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