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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 5391759, member: 114169&quot;]Folks,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen across the Bay a strike listed as a &quot;pattern coin&quot; called &quot;Morgan&#039;s Schoolgirl.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some have been raw, some have been slabbed and graded.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen these in just about every slab imaginable except perhaps, PCGS.&nbsp; They&#039;ve been in NGC, ANACS, ICG, and others.&nbsp; Some attribute these to the &quot;Smithsonian Collection,&quot; others do not.&nbsp; I have seen these strikes in copper, nickel, silver, and gold (purportedly).</p><p><br /></p><p>Seller pricing for them have been all over the board, with no real pattern that I can discern.&nbsp; Right now on Ebay, they can be had from <b>$60</b> to <b>$2,250</b>.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t really done a search for actual sold prices, and I am frankly, skeered to do that (you&#039;ll see why in a moment).</p><p><br /></p><p>I seriously question whether these have any connection to the actual Smithsonian Museum in WDC or if the &quot;maker&quot; is just cooping the name.&nbsp; Most slabs reference these as from a &quot;Private Mint&quot; using the term perhaps to clandestinely hide or obscure the identity of the real maker.&nbsp; I have so many doubts surrounding these, it&#039;s insane.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, these played into my recent addiction to all things exonumia and the mystery and mystique surrounding these got the better of me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, as stated above, curiosity got the best of me, so I picked a couple up.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking it was worth the risk, but then . . . . . I started having second thoughts, so I come to the board of experts.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Did I get taken?&nbsp; Are these worthless, or not?&nbsp; What say you?</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Zoid</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1231918[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1231919[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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