1905 Society Award
(From left) RGHF-Pres. M. Ingemanson, RC NY, W. Ziegler and PDG K.-H. Guentermann, RC Ammersee. The pic was taken by Dayton Y. Lee, from the same club as our RIP nom. Dong Kurn Lee, RC Seoul Hangang, Korea.
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The 1913 Liberty-Nickel
The 1913 Liberty-Nickel is the second most expensive coin in the world*. Only five of these coins had been minted wrongly in 1913 under mysterious circumstances. Officially, in 1913 a portrait of an Indian was scheduled for the Nickel.
The 1913 Liberty-Nickel
This Nickel was sold in 2005 for 4,15 million USD Today it is assumed, that Samuel W. Brown, then employed by the Philadelphia Mint, was deliberately involved. After waiting a few years, he bought the rare coins from the engraver George T. Morgan. In 1993, the 1913 Liberty-Nickel reached the price of one million USD. In 2005, at an auction in New Jersey, the Nickel was sold for 4,15 million. [Translated in part from the Deutsches Muenzen Magazin, January 2007]
Probably you can understand, that far from being ungrateful about having received the 1905 Liberty-Nickel, I would nevertheless trade it against the 1913 Liberty-Nickel.
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*The most expensive coin to date is the 1933 Double Eagle, who was sold in 2002 for nearly eight million dollars.
