[Oshkalaboomboom]

Sorry about the caps but that is how it is formatted on the auction site. Four Seasons is about 5 miles from my house. It's a regional auction house though it does do auctions in Las Vegas once or twice a year. I saw this auction advertised today and thought I'd share it with the FR coin collectors to see what they thought about it.

My first thought when I read the auction blurb was "Why, if this coin is so valuable and rare, isn't it being auctioned off in Sothebys, or Christies, or even Gallery 63 (which is about 15 minutes further down the same road and is where they film the tv show Auction Kings)? My guess is because nobody can prove that it's a genuine coin and they are hoping some rube will pay 20-30 thousand for it on the chance they can get an expert to verify its authenticity. Notice they use the weasel word "may" when they describe the coin?

Anyway, there is a picture gallery if you click on the link so you can see the rarest coin in America and decide if it's the real deal. What do you think?

[Olog-hai]

A three-dollar bill gold coin in San Francisco? Sounds like something Captain Obvious would say. Hmm.

[KoRn]

"I'll give ya 150 bucks for it."

[LukeL]

You wouldn’t repair the mint mark, you would repunch it. Also the mint mark looks like a really bad fake, much too vertical. If you could look under a loupe you would probably see tool marks indicating it was punched by hand.

[garandgal]

Oh, for Pete’s sake. Found by a European traveler, and transported under “armed guard?”

Because, of course, said European traveler would immediately think if them to sell it rather than say, Heritage.

NO professional would sell this coin without having it authenticated. Some would sell it without doing any type of due diligence so that they could say “well, we presented it as a possible”...that is completely unethical on a $1,000 item, FGS.