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Message:: [QUOTE="MisterWD, post: 3081836, member: 76991"]I used to live in a small town where we had a coin collector who was well known to all the local merchants. He went around once a week to each store and the local banks asking to go through the nickels in their cash drawers to look for a 50D nickel, no others - just that 50D. I knew him personally for the last twenty years of his life. I was just a kid when I met him and over the years he helped me with my collection. After his passing in 1976 his heirs sold his collection. He had been collecting since he was a child in 1919 and never showed his collection to anyone so far a I knew. Don't know why he was so cagey about it. That was my first opportunity to see it. He had a remarkable collection of post Civil War U.S. coins including a full set of Lincoln cents with an 09S VBD, a 14D, and a 22D, each in MS condition; back then we just said 'uncirculated'. But he did not have a 50D nickel. I felt bad for the guy. he was my friend and after being obsessed with finding it for so many years, he died without finding one. Just buy it.[/QUOTE]