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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2322513, member: 19250&quot;]Out of 500 competing artist Schlag&nbsp; won the National&nbsp; Competition&nbsp; for a new 5 cent coin April&nbsp; 20 1938.</p><p>Shortly&nbsp; after&nbsp; he was told&nbsp; by the mint that the winning design had to be redesigned .</p><p>He made up the souvenir&nbsp; plaques&nbsp; that showed his original&nbsp; design in the upper&nbsp; right&nbsp; corner .&nbsp; Dead center was the new 1938 Proof coin. Each was signed by Schlag&nbsp; hand numbered&nbsp; and signed and sealed by a notary.</p><p>As I stated before he was promised&nbsp; 150 proof nickels to make up these plaques . He ended&nbsp; up&nbsp; short as the mint did not hold up to the 150 nickels promised . </p><p><br /></p><p>The nickel posted was retooled at the mint by a worker.&nbsp; A working die pair were hand carved to the lettering&nbsp; you see in my images. Now with only 19,365 nickels minted what percent were produced&nbsp; by the reworked dies?</p><p>Having&nbsp; the extra serifs on the obv.and rev.?</p><p>Could any have been used by Schlag unknowingly&nbsp; to produce his souvenir&nbsp; boards?&nbsp; As he had to obtain&nbsp; some of the proofs to make these boards outside the mint.</p><p>And if one or more what value&nbsp; would that place on an already small number of numismatic&nbsp; pieces ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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