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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1956164, member: 66&quot;]The guy from Blanchards has his story all mixed up.</p><p>Yes there was a wreck and a death, but I believe Walton was traveling alone not a couple.&nbsp; The coin was not recovered by a passerby and taken home by him, it was recovered by the police.&nbsp; The coin was sent to Stacks in New York for identification where it was identified as an altered date (Walton was known to have an altered date piece in addition to the genuine coin) and then returned to the family.&nbsp; The Walton family then kept the coin in the closet.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While PCGS did offer a $10,000 reward for the missing 1913 nickel, what got the Walton family to bring the coin to the ANA show was&nbsp; a direct request for them to bring the coin that had been returned to them to add to the display as part of the story of the 1913 nickel.&nbsp; They were expecting the altered date coin but the coin the family brought was the real one.&nbsp; Was this the coin from the accident and seen by Stacks?&nbsp; Or was it the genuine piece that may have never been in the accident.&nbsp; There is no way to know.&nbsp; The persons who worked at stacks in 1962 and who identified the recoverd coin are not available and so there is no way to confirm if the genuine Walton coin is the same one as the one from the accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the Blanchard rep made a $3 million offer for something at the time it might have been for on of the other 1913 nickels (one did sell that same day, but for $5 million) but the Walton coin was not on the market until much later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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