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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1471530, member: 66"]But that ad was not Mehl's and was not out where the general public would see it. Your ad was placed by Samuel Brown in order to create the "plausible explanation" as to how he had acquired his five coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That's how they, and a lot of museums display their coins. If you saw their exhibit at the ANA in Chicago in 2011 you would have see a 33 double eagle and 1849 double eagle displayed the same way. Some museums actually stick them in place using a form of wax or putty rather than have them resting on posts. The Smithsonian used to use that method with some of the coins on display with the Lilly collection. Museums don't always take the best care of coins. After the Mint collection was turned over to the Smithsonian one of the curators used baking soda to polish the tarnish off the silver proof coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1471530, member: 66"]But that ad was not Mehl's and was not out where the general public would see it. Your ad was placed by Samuel Brown in order to create the "plausible explanation" as to how he had acquired his five coins. That's how they, and a lot of museums display their coins. If you saw their exhibit at the ANA in Chicago in 2011 you would have see a 33 double eagle and 1849 double eagle displayed the same way. Some museums actually stick them in place using a form of wax or putty rather than have them resting on posts. The Smithsonian used to use that method with some of the coins on display with the Lilly collection. Museums don't always take the best care of coins. After the Mint collection was turned over to the Smithsonian one of the curators used baking soda to polish the tarnish off the silver proof coins.[/QUOTE]
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