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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 332605, member: 4626&quot;]Um, a few errors I noticed in the article lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>No coin has ever sold for more than $7.5 million (another 1933 double eagle in fact) so the claim that any discovered coin could be worth twice that is a little dubious.&nbsp; If they ever found another 1933 double eagle, and the government didn&#039;t confiscate it, maybe it could auction for 9 or even 10 million but 15 million seems a bit much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Double eagles did in fact circulate, though maybe not as much as other coins, but certaintly weren&#039;t used exclusively for transferring funds between banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be hard for Theodore Roosevelt to have a coin minted in 1933 in his personal collection, considering that he died in 1919.&nbsp; Just as it would be hard for him to give King Farouk a present that didn&#039;t exist until 14 years after he died.&nbsp; (King Farouk did buy, not receive as a present, a 1933 double eagle in about 1944... it is widely believed that the only 1933 double eagle the government declared legal to own is that coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Well after all those mistakes, could this be a legitimate find (by which I mean, did it really happen lol?)&nbsp; Maybe... the government didn&#039;t go on its search and destroy mission for 1933 double eagles until 1944, who knows how many might have left the country before they found them... 5 years ago, another 10 turned up that they missed (ownership still under dispute)... it is theoretically possible that another could have been found.&nbsp; For a second one to turn up in Egypt would be the mother of all coincidences, so I&#039;m pretty skeptical of this being a real story (even if another was in Egypt, it&#039;s not the kind of thing that gets lost in a closet and forgotton about lol).&nbsp; So I&#039;d say the possibility of this actually happening to be almost zero, though not <i>completely</i> impossible I suppose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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