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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo how much is a lesus coin worth?
These things gotta go for thousands. I would bet they hit the $1,000,000 range within 20 years.
Any coin dealers out there with any ideas?
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Wouldn't be the first time a collectible was stepped on.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)You raise a point i hadnt thought of. Still i would love to get my hands on one. I am sure they are way beyond my financial reach already.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I read that in the Lible.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"Achy Breaky Heart"....
but in his defense, I think he's a Democrat.
http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/26/billy-ray-cirus-on-barack-obama-im-going-to-vote-for-him-again-yeah-i-believe-in-him/
JHB
(37,160 posts)When he flexes his pecs, his Ronald Reagan tattoo knocks down the Berlin Wall.
longship
(40,416 posts)A US postage stamp from the early days of airmail. Printed with the airplane upside-down.
Worth a chunk of money.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)didn't someone mail one of those back like ten years ago?
BTW
The Italian Minting Institute made about 6,000 Lesus medals and retrieved all but three or four, according to media reports.
Three or four people out there hit the lottery.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Yay wikipedia
In November 2006, election workers in Broward County, Florida claimed to have found an Inverted Jenny affixed to an absentee ballot envelope. The sender did not include any identification with the ballot, which meant the ballot was disqualified.[10]
In a review of a digital photograph of this stamp, Peter Mastrangelo, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Society said "It is our opinion, from what we've seen, that this stamp is questionable, and we are of the opinion at this point that it appears to be a reproduction". He said an in-person review was needed to be sure, but that all indications are that the stamp is a counterfeit. "The perforations on top and bottom do not match our reference copies." Mastrangelo said. "The colors of the blue ink are consistent with the counterfeit."[11]
The counterfeit inverted Jenny affixed to the absentee ballot envelope
On November 13, 2006, an elderly Sarasota, Florida man contacted SNN News 6, claiming to be the man who mailed the ballot. Dan Jacoby says the stamp he used is a commemorative stamp that is worth about 50 cents.[12][clarification needed]
On December 4, 2006, it was confirmed that this stamp used on the ballot was a counterfeit.[13] Inside the Broward County Elections Office in Florida, experts studied the stamp and decided that the method used to print it and the perforations along the sides were evidence that the stamp was fake