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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1136673, member: 15445&quot;]<b>Attribution &amp; provenance</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I almost forgot to mention that the nickel blank in this set may have been either a 1912-S V-nickel or a 1913 V-nickel.&nbsp; The blank may have been in the coining chamber at midnight December 31st 1912 in San Francisco when they stopped production of the Liberty design and refitted the machines for the Buffalo design.&nbsp; It has been postulated that a mint employee may have secretly removed this 1912-S nickel blank from the machine along with five other nickel blanks.&nbsp; Those five were clandestinely struck as 1913 Liberty nickels but the sixth blank was apparently never struck.&nbsp; This means that the T2 planchet depicted was never struck as either the 1912-S or the 1913 Liberty nickel!&nbsp; It now resides in this set.</p><p><br /></p><p>How’s that for provenance?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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