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  • Rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel expected to fetch millions at auction

    01/29/2013 6:38:25 AM PST · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    CBS ^ | 01/29/2013 | Staff
    RICHMOND, Va. A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding is expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, but it's the coin's back story that adds to its cachet: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered in a car wreck that killed its owner, declared a fake, forgotten in a closet for decades and then found to be the real deal. It all adds up to an expected sale of $2.5 million or more when it...