The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 10, March 7, 2004, Article 6

STOLEN DUPONT COIN RECOVERED

  The March 15, 2004 issue of COIN WORLD has a cover
  article on the recently recovered 1866 Seated Liberty, No
  Motto dollar that was stolen in 1967 from the DuPont
  collection.   Stephen Searle sent a link to an article that
  appeared in the March 2 issue of the Washington Post.

  "A rare silver dollar dating from 1866, perhaps the world's
  most notable missing coin, may have been turned over to
  experts last week in the bar of a Best Western hotel in Maine.

  The coin, valued at more than $1 million, was surrendered
  in Augusta by a librarian who said he received it from an
  eccentric friend several years ago in a box of coins of
  considerably less value.

  Only two 1866 silver dollars without the inscription "In God
  We Trust" are known to exist.   The other is in a private
  collection, and the missing one was largely written off as lost
  after gunmen snatched it in 1967 from millionaire Willis H.
  du Pont, to whom it will revert.

  "The darn thing turned up," said John J. Kraljevich Jr. of the
  auction firm American Numismatic Rarities. He and a colleague,
  John M. Pack, declared the coin to be the real thing after
  huddling with the librarian at a table in the Best Western last
  week."

  "Later, they said the librarian spoke of discovering that he had
  a coin worth more than $1 million, only to learn later that the
  coin was stolen property and not his at all.

  "I have to admit that as we pulled away and he was walking
  across the parking lot, he looked a little crestfallen," Kraljevich
  said.

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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