If I would have known....and would have had the money ....I would have bought it. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20040520/ap_on_re_us/mystery_nickel
I know of the other for sale. The dealer only wants 5 million. He stated at the ANA show last fall when he purchased the coin, that he would retire on that nickel.
I remember the Hawaii Five-O episode referenced in the article. It was somewhat ridiculous. The nickel was at a coin show, and the owner of the nickel let a person examine the nickel out of the holder. The person then, through sleight of hand, undetected by security guards, switched the nickel with an altered 1912 nickel. The crook left the building, an alarm sounded, and the crook deposited the famous nickel in a newspaper machine to gid rid of the evidence. Hey, it was TV, but even as a 9 year old kid, I thought it was not too realistic to be able to hold a $100,000 (now $3 million) nickel in your hand!!!
ya'll want to here something pretty amusing? like I have said many, many times before, my first nickel was a 1912 liberty nickel. The think I never mentioned to anyone here before is that when I originally found the coin the last number of the date, 2 was partially worn away. It showed only the top of the 2, which looked very much like a 3. I was hysterical about it for a year, until I bought tome solvent and cleaned it up. It turned out to be a 1912 S. Not bad for a 1912, but still nowhere near a 1913. That's gotta be my most interesting coin story.
