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1938 Jefferson nickel Winning & Losing Design Set I finally broke down and got all of these.. The winning Proof and Business Strike as well as the Losing design. Of coarse there not official us mint coins they don't exist but they where produced in small runs off the original designs, I felt they where needed for my collection.  1938 Jefferson nickel Award Winning Design.Business Strike
Proof Strike These where produced in .999 silver for the Full Step Nickel Club (FSNC) in 2002 using the original winning design submitted by Felix Schlag. The US Mint asked Felix Schlag to make final changes which was the US Nickel from 1938 - 2003. The FSNC obtained the original design and had 1,938 sets of Matte and Proof finish pieces produced. The is set #70 of 1,938 produced. There was a mistake on the Mattie label should read mintage 1,938 not 1,038 (as they want to linit the mintage to the same number as the year). The Frans Hejda 1938 Losing Design. The story of the Frans Hejda nickel is: In 1994 Stacks auctioned off two 11' uniface plasters models that were identifies from the designer Frans K Hejda that had been submitted for the the 1938 competition. The plasters sold for $4,180. A European dealer purchased the plasters and had dies produced (reduced) from them. There were roughly 2,000 pieces of proof quality, sterling silver strikes made in honor of the 60th anniversary of the 1938 competition and the dies were destroyed.   Edited by OcalaFlorida
08/21/2014 12:35 pm
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Thanks for the info. I learn something new every day on here.
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Wow definitely not liking them designs but thanks for sharing.
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I agree with Coins101. I like the used design the most. Thank you for sharing!
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Nice set and good information.  |
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Glad you like them. I hate departing with anything but time to clean house a little and clear out double and triples. I keep telling myself 'You only need one example" 'You only need one example', and the other voice says 'Buy them all' 'Buy them all'.
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Love them, I see you have a lot stuff I could give a good home too. I ordered that other book you mentioned, I have been having a hard time with early proof varieties.
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08/29/2014 3:10 pm
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I really like the winning version, I have the matte version and I am looking for a proof version... anyone has one for sale? :^)
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There were actually 389 losing designs, one of which was almost a duplicate of the design finally used. The words five cents was treated differently on it. (straight, not curved)
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I definitely think the "winning design" is the best out of those shown. Quote:
There were actually 389 losing designs Anyone have a reference of those designs. I would be curious his similar or dissimilar they would be to each other. |
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The Frans Hejda 1938 Losing Design looks like Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle, maybe even Mr. Spacely from the Jetsons, with a bit of Dudley Do-Right thrown in  |
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Anyone else notice the juxtaposition? If the winning design was chosen there would be no "Full Step Nickel Club" since the design does not show any steps  |
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I hate to bring a thread back from the dead, but can anyone give me more information about the Frans Hejda design coin? One came into the LCS the other day
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I'm glad ya did cj Weber, I'm interested also.
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Mine coin was borrow by a book author who has still not returned it now 4 months later.
They are not official us mint coins, real us currency of them don't exist but they were produced in small runs off the original designs
In 1994 Stacks Bower's auctioned off two 11' uniface plasters models from the designer Frans K Hejda that had been submitted for the 1938 design competition.
The plasters sold for about $4k us dollars to a European collector who had the plasters made into dies reduced to correct size.
There were supposedly 1,938 pieces of proof quality, sterling silver strikes made in honor of the 60th anniversary of the 1938 competition and the dies were then destroyed (not plasters).
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