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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 489100, member: 66&quot;]Reap the money?&nbsp; What money?&nbsp; It most likely COSTS them to put them on display.&nbsp; As far as I know they don&#039;t charge to see them and the shows are usually free to the public so there is no money coming in, but they have to pay personel, security and insurance whe they display them, plus the cost of shipping them and possibly th personel around the country.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No only a few people who happen to live close to the museums would get to see them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know about you, but I&#039;ve never been able to see the wonderful collections at the ANA, ANS, Smithsonian, or the British museum.&nbsp; But I have had a chance to see the BEP Billion dollar exhibit, the spider press, and some other really nice exhibits because of traveling displays at shows.&nbsp; Shows will often manage to get closer to me than museums do.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well considering they have put the collection away in the vaults and have only displayed a few pieces from it in the past three or four years I don&#039;t think you are going to see it at one point in your life.&nbsp; And most of what they had on display when it was open was just the Lilly gold collection.. As for feeling they should have one of the 1933 double eagles, you should be happy, they have two, and they used to be on display with the Lilly collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds good but you can only do that if the family agrees. If they say no we want our coins back then the government can&#039;t go ahead and sell them until ownership is decided by the courts.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>they removed the floor and repaced it with glass so you could watch the restoration work on the Star Spangled Banner from above.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We can&#039;t and some who were at the 1954 Palace collection sale and saw it have said that it is NOT the Farouk coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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