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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1545050, member: 66&quot;]I&#039;m not aware of them ever actually striking a five dollar version and I don&#039;t think the discussions of whether or not they had the authority coiming up until after the one dollar coins were struck.&nbsp; Although I haven&#039;t seen it mentioned since then, I do remember that the coins were exhibited somewhere immediately after they came back from their shuttle ride.&nbsp; (But when they were displayed at the ANA they did make the claim that this was the first time they had been publicly exhibited.&nbsp; So either my memory is faulty or the earlier exhibition wasn&#039;t considered &quot;public&quot;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for whether or not they had the authority to produce the gold coin, they actually do.&nbsp; The planchet size is almost the same size as the 1/2 oz gold eagle, and they were planning on making them as 1/2 oz gold coins.&nbsp; The legislation that authorized the AGE back in 1986 allowed the director of the mint to change the design without having to go through Congress.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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