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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1093761, member: 15309&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason why so many people believe that the term &quot;black beauty&quot; refers to the mint state Jefferson Nickels from 1958 &amp; 1959 is because that is what the foremost expert on the series says in his book.&nbsp; The following is a quote of Bernard Nagengast from the JEFFERSON NICKEL ANALYST.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you are saying that the term originally belonged to dark blue proof coins from the 60&#039;s, we will have to defer, since most of us are not old enough to remember the early 60&#039;s.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />ld-guy-smile:&nbsp; But because Nagengast is giving credit to the mint state coins from 58 &amp; 59, you are going to have a tough time convincing the masses that you are right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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