Tonite on "Strange Inheritance". Three million dollar nickel. A man inherits what's said to be a counterfeit 1913 Liberty Nickel.
That will be about the George O. Walton copy, that Stacks said was fake at the time. 40 years later they found out it was real.
If you don't know the story why Stack's declared it a fake was because the font of the 3 is something they had never seen before. When they later declared it was real they had the other 4 real coins to compare it to.
You also have the problem that Walton was known to have a fake 1913 V nickel, and there is no way to prove the genuine coin seen today is the same coin that Stacks saw in 1962. The people who saw it at Stacks back then are gone, and the family members who received the coin back from Stacks are gone. There are no eyewitnesses today that saw both pieces. Walton could have had the fake with him when he had the accident while the genuine was back home. Stacks was shown the fake and sent it back to the family. Then the family brought the real one to the ANA where it was declared genuine. Is that what happened? Who knows, but it is a possibility. After all, where is the fake that Walton was known to have?
Here is the episode. Spoiler alert...all 5 originally sold for $2,000. Aye carumba. Doc, where are the keys to the Delorean.
