The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 31, August 3, 2003, Article 4

MISSING 1913 NICKEL APPEARS

  Christopher Rivituso sent a link to an Associated Press
  story shortly after it appeared on the wires Wednesday.
  Apparently the missing 1913 Liberty Head Nickel showed
  up at the ANA show in Baltimore and has been determined
  to be genuine.

  "Relatives of the late George Walton, a North Carolina
  coin dealer, took the coin to the experts at the American
  Numismatic Association convention that opened Wednesday.
  The relatives did not want to be identified.

  The family had put the coin away after Walton's death
  because they didn't believe it was genuine, said Paul
  Montgomery, president of Bowers and Merena Galleries,
  a Louisiana-based coin dealer and auction house.

  The association brought the six experts together late
  Tuesday. After comparing the coin to four documented
  coins, they declared the coin authentic early Wednesday."

  [Were any E-Sylum readers among the six who examined
  the coins?  Until Wednesday, Eric Newman was the last
  living person to view all five of the coins together. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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