A coin related article is TODAYS (11/14/2013) featured article on WIKIPEDIA

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Jefferson nickel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i helped write portions of this a while back.


I'm clad to see it made it to the main page.

 

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nice, learn something everyday or 20yrs, a guy looked at some coins i had,and offered .10 ea
for 3 1966 niks,i thought maybe was a birth yr or something to him, he must have known and
thought,they would be worth more than a 1$ 20yr later

from wki link
the judges viewed 390 entries; four days later, Felix Schlag was announced as the winner.[SUP][3][/SUP] Schlag had been born in Germany and had come to the United States only nine years previously.[SUP][4][/SUP] Either through a misunderstanding or an oversight, Schlag did not include his initials in the design; they would not be added until 1966