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FAKE 1804 DOLLAR DROPPED IN SALVATION ARMY KETTLE
It's become quite a fad to drop gold coins in Salvation Army kettles, and newspaper accounts of their discovery are old hat. But here's something different - a fake rarity.
-Editor
You couldn't blame him for imagining what good deeds his nonprofit charity could do with a potentially valuable 1804 silver dollar coin. It was discovered among the thousands people plunked into the local Salvation Army's kettles over the Christmas holiday. "We have a hillside behind our emergency shelter that could be expanded with a new retaining wall, along with new landscaping to fit the area," Gillies said Thursday inside the Long Beach Convention Center, where the Long Beach Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo was being held. After taking the coin to an expert appraiser at the show, , Gillies was told - rather quickly - that his coin was in fact a fake. Had it been real, it could have fetched anywhere from $4 million to $6 million, the experts said. "I expected it would be," said Gillies, who was only slightly disappointed. "I mean, how weird that would have been - that an authentic coin worth millions of dollars would end up at the bottom of one of our kettles? It's what I was expecting. "But I was still hoping," he quickly added, grinning.
So what would possess someone to do that? Were they planning to take a multimillion dollar tax deduction for their "donation"? This just wastes the time of people involved, with no benefit to the Salvation Army's mission. Was it done simply to generate publicity?
-Editor
To read the complete article, see:
1804 coin found in Salvation Army kettle found to be a fake
(www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_17287221)
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