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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 779394, member: 66&quot;]And 120 years later the trick still works, see all the gold plated coins and fantasies sold on the TV for absurd money.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know there is little doubt that the gilding and passing of the coin occured.&nbsp; Even the link you posted agrees with that: &quot;I was able to turn up a good many references to the gilding of</p><p>nickels in sources from the 1880s, some quite interesting, and</p><p>some naming specific &quot;racketeers,&quot;&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>What is in doubt and which that link covers is the doubtfulness of the specific Josh Tatum story.&nbsp; Josh Tatum did NOT exist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You are correct though that most of the plated 1883 no cent nickels most likely were created AFTER 1950.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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