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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Yokozuna, post: 949945, member: 26087&quot;]My best ground find was not one of my own, but I had a close friend that found an 1854 Type II One Dollar gold piece.&nbsp; We had no idea that it was a type II, but found out later.&nbsp; It was still in a collectors 2X2 cardboard holder, but was bent about 20 degrees almost in the center of the coin.&nbsp; It was a very strong MS coin other than the bend.&nbsp; It was bent so that if you set it down on a surface the top of the obverse&nbsp; would stand up just a little higher than the surface.&nbsp; He asked me if I could help him sell the coin, because I was a collector, so I called the coin shop I always bought errors from, told them what we had and asked if they would look at it.&nbsp; They were shocked to see that it was a type II and said that &quot;Someone was going to be upset when they found that they had dropped it&quot; and that the coin could be repaired fairly well, but it lower the grade because the bend would always show.&nbsp; They offered me $250 but I had no idea what it was worth, so I asked. They said that if it didn&#039;t have the bend, the Grey Sheet price was over $1000.&nbsp; A quick call to my friend and he said $250 was fine.&nbsp; He even gave me half the money for helping sell the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure that everyone involved in this find was happy, but I do feel sorry for the guy that dropped it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Ben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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