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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 41096, member: 1674&quot;]Honestly, I wouldn&#039;t buy from you.&nbsp; For THAT coin to be in THAT condition and in THAT particular company&#039;s holder, SOMEONE along the line must have known its true value.&nbsp; People who collect coins don&#039;t just give such nearly perfect examples of &quot;Rare&quot; coins away without being sure that the person receiving the coin knows about its value.&nbsp; Even if the coin was given to a non-collector at some point, that non-collector would still know its approximate value and if they ever tried to give it away they would pass on the value of the coin to its next owner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, in your situation, you are AT LEAST 2 steps away from anyone knowing anything about it, since you (until a short time ago) had no idea of its value, and your friend obviously knew nothing of its value. (As evidenced by the fact that he traded a $3000 coin for computer repair and help moving.&nbsp; He could have hired a moving company and bought a new computer for that much money!)&nbsp; Now, who knows if his uncle knows its value, but somewhere in this coins succession of owners I think it has probably been stolen (my opinion, and certainly not an accusation) as that is one of the most common ways that something KNOWN to be valuable gets into the possession of some one who knows nothing of its value.&nbsp; (The other common way for that to happen is by inheritance, but that&#039;s another discussion for another day).</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem that you have is that the coin has an individual serial number and the possibility that the proper owner has recorded that serial number is very high, meaning that it can be easily identified as stolen by its serial number.&nbsp; That said PLEASE don&#039;t remove it from its holder as that would greatly reduce the protection that the coin currently has and since gold is so soft it is likely that the coin could sustain damage (even very minor damage could reduce the coin&#039;s value to 1/10 of what it currently is.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I were you, I&#039;d start doing some research and I&#039;d try to talk to my friend&#039;s uncle, to see if he knows what has happered to the coin and also if he can provide any info on its history.&nbsp; I&#039;d be prepared to have to give the coin to him though as it seems likely to me that he might not even know that it is missing from his collection yet.&nbsp; Who knows, maybe I&#039;m wrong, but I doubt it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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