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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3247133, member: 77413&quot;]That is exactly what I thought it had to be, since its regularity is so mechanical looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>From this we know that this coin was never in a roll, but came from a mint set package. That, in turn, tells us something about the original collector and how he found the coins to build his set. He was not content with circulation coinage so broke apart mint sets. And why not? There were 1,975,981 sets made especially for collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what became of the other denominations? I bet they were in the Roosevelt and Franklin Dansco albums that were in the display case with this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>There’s a couple hundred nickels in the full set. I’ll keep this one, with damage, for the story it might be telling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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