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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinBreaux, post: 2953008, member: 84748&quot;]It honesty wouldn’t surprise me, as no one would know for a long time. The 1906 Fire that followed the Earthquake damaged the Northern wall, so it could have been exposed.</p><p><br /></p><p>My theory is that mint employees took the cornerstone. After the fire, dynamite was used to take down the walls of destroyed buildings. Some of these buildings were near the Northern wall, so a weak wall (with an exposed cornerstone) that is near an explosion could collapse and destroy the coins. Therefore, I believe that mint employees got the coins. Then somehow the 1870 S $3 Piece made it’s way to the auction block.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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