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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 456987, member: 15062&quot;]We seem to be going in circlces for no good purpose.&nbsp; Neither I, nor anyone else here (as far as I know) have the remotest possibility of buying your coin.&nbsp; Also, no one here is going to help you in any way to sell the coin, other that suggestions on how you should have listed it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I myself contacted you merely out of curiosity to see exactly what it was you offered.&nbsp; I appreciate that you did respond to me but I&#039;m totally in the dark as to your reasons for not publishing pictures of the coin in it&#039;s holder (front and back), and why you are hiding its provenance.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The way you have handled this is no different than if I were to assert that I have a 1933 Double Eagle, or a 1964 Peace Dollar, or a 1974 aluminum cent, or any of a number of other ultra rare or semi-legal coins.&nbsp; If I say I have it, can anyone prove that I don&#039;t?&nbsp; We can&#039;t say with authority that you don&#039;t have the 1954-O half but without more convincing documentation you can&#039;t prove that you do.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s hard to believe that this coin was just laying around for 150+ years and just now magically turns up.&nbsp; Not to say that it couldn&#039;t have but your (non) story just doesn&#039;t ring true without additional factual information.&nbsp; There have been a minimum of three owners of this coin since it was minted.&nbsp; I&#039;m curious how it was kept secret by previous owners and their heirs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you seem intent on maintaining more doubt than is necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>To those here who doubt the existence of any branch mint (New Orleans) proofs for the period, a simple Google search was how I came up with the picture of the 1838-O proof that I posted here earlier in the thread.&nbsp; Bowers and Merena has listed several gold O-mint pieces that aren&#039;t in the standard catalogs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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