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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RWB, post: 654653, member: 19205&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The item posted as Jefferson nickel “pattern” is not a pattern or experimental coin. It is a privately made medal prepared from plaster models sold at auction. Coin auction companies typically are not expert in art attribution, so one should be very cautions when a plaster model is attributed to so-and-so sculptor. Whether or not the artist’s heirs were consulted is unknown. If the artist can be identified, then rights to the design belong to the heirs.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">All of the contestant’s letters are in the National Archives. A few of these have drawings or photos from which one can deduce what the submitter’s design looked like. Contestants were given the option of paying for return of the models (in advance) or having them destroyed after the competition. Most were destroyed.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">There are similar fantasy and imaginary design tokens for other designs and other denominations.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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