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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 24730012, member: 68&quot;]No.&nbsp; There were far too many made to have been stolen and no reason to believe and no evidence any were.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Their manufacture appeared to require at least two people, probably three, to have occurred since they were made on a press who&#039;s operator had gone to lunch after shutting it down.&nbsp; It was run while he was gone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt the production of these two coins was in any way at all &quot;official&quot; even though it occurred as interest in the states quarters was beginning to flag, but they were not made to profit an individual.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would call them grossly underappreciated and semi-official mint type coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They would have been so much more interesting if they had not been discovered before they were much better distributed.&nbsp; I can only imagine the stir they&#039;d have caused if there were one&nbsp; in every box released by the mint and they weren&#039;t discovered for months after release.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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