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jfransch Pillar of the Community United States 1801 Posts	Posted 12/12/2008 12:37 pm Condor..I would love to see one of those ads if you know the date of the issue of Numismatic Scrapbook. All my reading points to the one offered at auction that started the Treasury investigation as the first public offering. Now I will be forced to find my copy of the book and look it up. Please see if you can find one of those ads, I would like to date it against the whole confiscation time period. I find it hard to beleive anyone offered one for sale publicly when so much cloak and dagger took place with the few that were sold. Report this Post to the Staff
jfransch Pillar of the Community United States 1801 Posts	Posted 12/13/2008 02:16 am Ok, I did some more research. Condor, you are correct, one was offered for sale in the Feb 1941 issue of the numismatist, the coin said to be one of only 3 known and eventually purchased by Ira Reed. This is one of the coins tracked down by the treasury after the hunt began in 1944. In the March and June issues there were one line unillustrated ads for this specimen as well. I also learned that one collector, F C C Boyd bought one from Jim McAllister (dealer) who had bought it from Switt and displayed his coin publicly on 3 occasions in 1937 which made the news in both the Numismatist and Numismatic Scrapbook, with the Scrapbook claiming in the article that there were more out there. Very fascinating history Report this Post to the Staff
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