[SJSAMPLE]

Idiot.
The last people you being into confidence are cops, politicans and the federal government.

[scory]

Reminds me of a story I heard many years ago about a guy in Oregon who bought a sheet of stamps and noticed a major printing error. He went around showing off his discover and telling people how this could lead to him making big bucks and a local paper picked up the story and printed it. Within a month the government began printing millions of that stamp with that error reducing his once precious discovery to nothing more than a sheet of stamps.

And announcing you have 9 of them is not a real good idea either. If I recall there were only supposed to be two of the 1933 double eagles in existence and adding 9 more will knock that $7 million price down quite quite a bit.

[Quix]

INDEED.

Sigh.

[MSF BU]

My first thought as well. Who in the world advised them to turn ALL of the coins over for inspection. Had just one coin been seized, that would have gone a long way to authenticate the other eight.