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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;huntsman53, post: 171466, member: 1242&quot;]YNcoinpro_US,</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;1&quot; being over the &quot;2&quot; is the first thing I and the others looked for! Well, I can say with certainty that the &quot;1&quot; was behind the &quot;2&quot; on the specimen that Dave had! Not only was the &quot;1&quot; behind the &quot;2&quot;, the &quot;4&quot; was also doubled just like the &quot;4&quot; on the 1942/1-D specimens. The coin was a circulated VF-30 to almost EF-40 specimen and the coin appeared to be a very &quot;Late Die Stage&quot; as the date was a little weak. Being always the sceptic, I had the money in the Bank but did not want to fork out that kind of money as the thoughts of it being a counterfeit kept creeping around in the back of my mind. However, I could kick myself now as I am sure that Dave whom I have known for quite a long while, would take the coin back and refund my money if in fact it was a counterfeit. I still have a day or two before Dave sends it off for authentication, certification and grading, so if I can rearrange some of my biills, I may contact him and purchase the coin (if he still has it that is as there were a lot of people interested in the coin). Heck, even without purchasing the 1942/1-P coin, I still could have purchased the 1942/1-D coin for around $500 which is cheap for a solid VF-30 specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to give you a little background information on both coins, I will tell you what Dave told me. Both of the coins actually belong to Dave&#039;s Father-In-Law who resided, worked and Gold Prospected in Alaska for over 40 years. Dale (I think that that is his name because Dale&#039;s was wrote on the 2x2&#039;s that the coins were in) decided to retire and just recently moved to Tennessee to be near family. Since there are no Banks close to where his Father-In-Law lived in Alaska, Dale buried all of his&#039; coin colections and savings on the property. Dave stated that the two overdate Mercury dimes and quite a few other coins in the bunch were buried by Dale in one hole close to 40 years ago. From what Dave indicated, Dale buried other coin collections all over the place and at different times during the more than 40 years he was in Alaska. Now Dave usually has a fairly large and nice assortment of coins on display at the Coin Shows each month but this time, he had nearly twice the amount of coins that he normally does. This time, he had a lot of really older Large and Half Cents, Two Cent and Three Cent Pieces, Half Dimes, Dimes, Quarters, Halves, some Silver Dollars and other coins which he normally doesn&#039;t have or at least I have never seen him have that amount of coins and especially the older ones. Dave also had a lot of older Currency at this Coin Show and the amount on display was about 5 or more times the amount that he normally has on display. So as you can see, the story and the amount of coins and currency fit the story Dave told me besides I have known Dave for quite a long time and he can be trusted. Therefore, I believe that the coin is authentic but no matter, Dave is sending it in and I should know the awswer to the question at next month&#039;s Coin Show which will be held on the second Saturday of January 2007 at the Budget Inn of North Cedar Bluff Road in Knoxville, Tennessee.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can bet that I will give you all an updated as soon as I found out the outcome from Dave!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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