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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;claw, post: 120329, member: 3699&quot;]Well to make a long story short. About five years ago when i lived in Fl., I befriended an antique /coin dealer.We made several fishing trips and I worked part time restoring a one of a kind&nbsp; rust bucket of a tractor worth 100,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, one day , one of his special customers asked if he could come to her property to appraise some art,antiques and stuff.He asked me and my partner if we could accompany him on his trip, and after business, we would get a guide and do some bass fishing.</p><p><br /></p><p>To our surprise, one lot of items she wanted to get rid of was supposedly 50,000 worth of old coins.</p><p>Turns out that, after spending all weekend&nbsp; counting, we estimated about 60,000 face value of old silver dollars. Most were uncurculated.Dozens of mint bags of old morgans, about 100 bust dollars,and a couple bags of peace dollars, along with about 30 suitcases full of little jewelry boxes and numerous other silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>After making an offer of 1.2 mill. (wow), we loaded&nbsp; the van full of coins.Skipped the fishing trip and made for home. After further searching, I noticed an old suitcase, probably 100 years old.He was so caught up looking at one coin( I think it was an 1895 or 96 O mint supposedly only 1 in&nbsp; ms65).Turns out to be a 67.When i opened up the suitcase, the first box contained a sailor head proof. Some sort of pattern .After further searching, I turned up rarity after rarity. Coins I&#039;ve never heard of or seen. Many old proofs and patterns. At the bottom ,a 1964 peace.I turned to him and said,&quot;hey, whats this doing in here&quot; , I thought 1934 was the last year. After repeatting myself several times he took a look.He was more surprised of the 64, than the 1896.Not knowing the full story of the 1964, he filled me in.He weighed the coin on a&nbsp; scientific scale, and dropped a load. He said that with this kind of collection, it has to be real. maybe the only one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out, after spending all summer counting and sorting, we had found: (approximately)</p><p>4000 ms64</p><p>4000 65</p><p>about 400 66&amp;67</p><p>maybe&nbsp; a dozen 68</p><p>and about&nbsp; 6000-7000 lower ms grades.</p><p>several dozen pattern proofs</p><p>and about 50,000 face in&nbsp; circulated</p><p>For a round total of abou 70,000</p><p>He said that if all these&nbsp; higher grade morgans were to hit the market, prices would drop. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason I started this thread,i made a trip back there this last christmas for vacation.I was exited about seeing my friend, and maybe picking up some PL &amp; DMPL or a nice 67.Well he was no where to be found.I had a friend do a search for his name, and it came up does not exist. He was pretty paranoid about possesing such objects, and was scared the CIA was after him.No clue to whatever happened to him..</p><p>So I assume he might have been taken out.</p><p><br /></p><p>I owe him a lot for teaching me about this great hobby, and he will be missed dearly!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>CLAW[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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