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rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭
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Called strange inheritance.. On now about 1913 nickel..
keceph `anah

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  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes, was interesting.
    Checking news on-line earlier and Fox had link to this.
  • bosco5041bosco5041 Posts: 1,303 ✭
    Yes, I just happen to turn on the channel as it was starting about George Walton's 1913 nickel. Good program. The nickel looked like it had been wiped pretty heavy at one time.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Were there any conclusions drawn on authenticity?? Cheers, RickO
  • rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭
    man ricko you gotta watch the show, great story...
    they were told its was fake, then i think like 40 years later it was found to be real and mom had kept it after told it was a fake
    keceph `anah
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was the story of the re-discovery of the 5th piece
    in 2003 at the Baltimore ANA, and the auction of it just two years ago.

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • NapNap Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember going to Baltimore to see the 5 nickels together. Went with my sister, who is a comic artist, she has no interest in coins but she wanted to see the large Carl Barks exhibit at the same ANA show.
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  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I also remember seeing the 5 1913 V nickels at the Baltimore ANA also
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...The show is scheduled to air again on Tuesday 9:30 PM February 10th on Fox Business Channel. It's on 106 Comcast in my neck of the woods... image Pretty entertaining!
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • jomjom Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...The show is scheduled to air again on Tuesday 9:30 PM February 10th on Fox Business Channel. It's on 106 Comcast in my neck of the woods... image Pretty entertaining! >>



    Thanks for the heads-up. I'd love to see it....

    jom
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>...The show is scheduled to air again on Tuesday 9:30 PM February 10th on Fox Business Channel. It's on 106 Comcast in my neck of the woods... image Pretty entertaining! >>



    Thanks for the heads-up. I'd love to see it....

    jom >>



    ...image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, it is quite an interesting story, and an embarrassment for Stacks' going back many years ago. They pronounced the coin to be a fake when it was in fact genuine. I can't understand how they could have blown that one. Photographs had be have been available to them of at one of the other genuine pieces for a comparison, and 10X and stronger glasses were available in "the dark ages."

    The family was very lucky to have gotten the piece back from the Secret Service after they also pronounced it as a counterfeit. They have habit of confiscating and destroying things. Perhaps the wrong coin was shown to both Stacks' and the Secret Service. Walton did say that he had a piece with an altered date that he used to cover for the real coin in case of a robbery. That is the only reason I can think of that both the dealer and the government got the authentication wrong.

    At any rate the family came out ahead in the end. If they had sold the coin in the coin in the mid 1960s, they probably would realized about $60,000. When they did sell it, the price was over $3,000,000.
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭
    At any rate the family came out ahead in the end.

    ...I for one was really rootin' for them! image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have it on excellent authority that the
    genuine coin was shown at the Stacks
    location at their 57th Street store.

    I'd also say that after seeing all 5 of them
    together in 2003 at the 'midnight meeting',
    and looking with a strong mag. glass at the
    3 in the date, I am a bit understanding in
    that it might have been mis-diagnosed by someone in
    the early days of 1963, seeing the one coin.

    And I agree with BillJones that everyone is
    lucky the Secret Service didn't confiscate it
    and destroy it back then. It could have
    easily happened.
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • bosco5041bosco5041 Posts: 1,303 ✭
    The show is already running reruns but it is a great show.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The show is already running reruns but it is a great show. >>



    ...yes, like tomorrow night at 9:30 image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

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