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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 1507916, member: 17094&quot;]I was discussing what this coin might bring with some other numismatic experts and I said it could bring as high as ten million dollars, although only if two people with sufficiently deep pockets wanted it badly enough. Given its storied past -- it was the last coin that the &quot;King of Collectors&quot; Louis E. Eliasberg, Jr., obtained for his Complete Collection of U.S. Coins, paying $4,000 for it in November 1950 to dealer James Kelly, who had obtained it out of the Adolphe Menjou Collection a few months earlier for $3,650 -- it was in the realm of possibility, if an outside chance. Yet it is a dime, it brought a lot less than if it were a unique silver dollar, for example. </p><p><br /></p><p>This celebrated and unique dime is thought to have been among <i>several crates full </i>of hundreds of pattern coins and other rarities that William H. Woodin received from the Mint in exchange for two golf half union (fifty dollar) coins that he purchased in 1909.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Best Regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>George[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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