The Creek Coin: How a Perfect Dollar Unraveled a Secret Mint Job
The Creek Coin: How a Perfect Dollar Unraveled a Secret Mint Job
A flawless silver dollar, mirror finish and not a scratch, sat upright in eight inches of creek water inside a clear collector's case - with no footprints and the nearest road four-tenths of a mile away. Where did a coin formally counted and signed off at Portsmith Numismatic eleven days earlier reappear, and who turned a missing run into a cross-state investigation?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Earl Thorpe finding the coin on December 11, 2009 to the inventory discrepancy discovered at Portsmith Numismatic and…
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