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<p>[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 3534685, member: 78298"]Mark Hoffman (convicted felon) who confessed to making this coin, (the secret service says there's no evidence he made it) if he had the dies why wouldn't he make a few coins and not just 1? Unless the dies were damaged after the 1st coin, or unusable. And, unless he destroyed the dies or discarded them, they should have been found/confiscated. If he spent time and money making them, it would be hard for him to just get rid of them.</p><p>But there aren't any other coins and the dies were not discovered either.</p><p><br /></p><p>A different article states the coin was found in circulation in 1986. If you are going to create this rarity, you are going to try to make money from it and not just release it in to circulation.</p><p>In the OP it says the coin was discovered by Baller. But in another article it says he paid $1500 for the coin in 1986.</p><p>Yet another article claims it was sold for $1200 in 1996. (I think that one is wrong.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Michael K, post: 3534685, member: 78298"]Mark Hoffman (convicted felon) who confessed to making this coin, (the secret service says there's no evidence he made it) if he had the dies why wouldn't he make a few coins and not just 1? Unless the dies were damaged after the 1st coin, or unusable. And, unless he destroyed the dies or discarded them, they should have been found/confiscated. If he spent time and money making them, it would be hard for him to just get rid of them. But there aren't any other coins and the dies were not discovered either. A different article states the coin was found in circulation in 1986. If you are going to create this rarity, you are going to try to make money from it and not just release it in to circulation. In the OP it says the coin was discovered by Baller. But in another article it says he paid $1500 for the coin in 1986. Yet another article claims it was sold for $1200 in 1996. (I think that one is wrong.)[/QUOTE]
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