1806 US $5 Gold Coin

@westernsky interesting. There's a lot of ready money for Kirtland scrip out in them thar hills, from Sun Valley to Park City, and a lot of interest in the history. My father-in-law moved from town to town all over the west growing up, similar to what you read in Stegner's Big Rock Candy Mountain or Angle of Repose. Times have changed for the old rootless Westerners, and we're in the days of wealth and nostalgia now.

Cascade, thank you. It is all true and soon enough the coin will be back in my hands graded and today I'll be detecting the properties , may not find Mormon coins but the properties were built in 1800-1810 which I'll take any coins from that era.

Bieder they may but they shouldn't. Even a walk through 2 day turn around time is only 125 for a collector plus shipping and handling and PCGS dealers get discounted rates. Express is 60 a coin. At 250 for a single coin the shop made money off the submission fee even if they used the fastest tier.

I'd never trust someone else with a coin like that anyway though. Much better to do it yourself if you believe it's real

@ typecoin & everyone else not interested in Mormon history:

The story is more important than the coin if the coin proves to be real.

If dignit is selling, there's a lot more value in the story than the coin's numismatic value. The potential buyers are interested in their history. They're keenly interested in upstate New York treasure hunting and genealogy. I have no doubt they have better records of all the historic property owners than dignit has. I have found stories of gold coin finds in other places around the world, but nothing in upstate New York, and nothing at all about anything that dates to the exact time Joseph Smith was treasure hunting there. If the date on this coin were 1825 it would only be an interesting curiosity. 1806 makes it a lot more than that.

Even if dignit isn't selling, he's holding an artifact that testifies to what Joseph Smith occupied himself with before he found his golden plates. It's an organic connection to the founder of the LDS. A ten mile separation between the discovery site and where Joseph lived is no distance at all for a treasure hunter, who was armed with better knowledge of the recent camps and settlements than dignit. Joseph probably dug this site too. He just wasn't lucky.

That is NOT what I said nor what I meant to imply. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I really appreciate the story behind the coin if it is true (and I hope it is). What I was getting at is that CCF members should not try to degrade a find like this by poking holes into every letter of the OP's story, but instead focus on the coin the OP was seeking our collective expertise on.

I love it when a coin has a provenance and history like this that is based on where it was found. I have some Ancient Chinese coins that yield valuable information about circulation patterns based on how they were buried and what other coins they were buried with.

Yes TypeCoin971793, I'm not trying to slam the OP. Just sorting out the facts from the hype. Any major coin dealer or Auction House would do the same before presenting any "supplemental" information about this coin.

Metal detecting can be good clean fun for many people. Let's keep that and coin collecting fun and interesting. Cheers!

The coin has ZERO documentable provinence and history! It cannot be proved if it was carelessly lost or buried by a scared owner 200 years ago. It cannot be proved if this is a scam by the current owner to plug metal detectors and equipment. There are more questions than answers and the more we were told the more unbelievable the whole story sounded to me. Everybody has an opinion and that's mine.

Bottom line is It is a damaged 1806 5$ gold piece that is worth what the market will bear when/if it is sold to a willing buyer by a willing seller.