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Posted 02/01/2013 11:24 am
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So is the story that this one was found in his house and not recovered from the accident also bogus?
So is the story that this one was found in his house and not recovered from the accident also bogus?
This one was in the house, and one was recovered at the scene of the accident, The unanswerable question is are both coins the same coin? I suspect they are not because I don't see any way a knowledgeable firm like Stacks, being shown the genuine Walton coin, would have come to the conclusion that it was an altered date. If you have a MS coin (or PF as they are called now) and you altered the date on it, it is going to be extremely difficult to hide the evidence of the alteration. There is clearly nothing like that on the Walton coin so I think the Stacks employee saw a different coin. Walton was known to have an altered date piece and I suspect that was what was recovered from the accident and shown to Stacks while the genuine piece was safe at home the whole time.
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Someone correct me if I'm mistaken about this. But I believe two of the coins are proof strikes and the rest are business strikes.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken about this. But I believe two of the coins are proof strikes and the rest are business strikes.
When the five coins first surfaced in 1920 they were all described as Uncs. They retained that Unc designation for some years. Eventually the best two started to be described as proofs and the other three as Unc. As more time has passed they have now all become proofs, or at least they are now described that way. Personally I think they are just the first five coins from a pair of brand new dies and are most likely just Uncs.
