The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 35, August 14, 2005, Article 18

EATING THE EVIDENCE?

The following report is from a Philadelphia-area TV station
(August 10, 2005):

"An off-duty letter carrier accused of trying to pawn a stolen
gold coin worth $275,000 was arrested with the help of an
alert coin dealer, but investigators still can#39;t find the rare 1907
coin.

Police initially thought suspect Ernest Wilson might have
swallowed the coin as they closed in, and took him to a
hospital for X-rays, to no avail.

“I could see him literally throwing it, just to be rid of it,” said
dealer Robert Higgins of Wilmington, Del. “Unfortunately, it#39;s
an incredible coin that is now lost, possibly forever.”

"The coin was one of just 42 “rolled-edge” $10 gold coins
made at the Philadelphia Mint in 1907, but never circulated
because of an intricate, raised design that proved troublesome
both to produce and to stack."

"The missing coin had a pristine rating; only two of the surviving
1907 rolled-edge Indians had a higher grading, Higgins said. "

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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