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03-03-2004, 09:56 AM
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America's rarest silver dollar — and possibly its most famous stolen coin — was discovered in a box with filled with miscellaneous coins by a Maine librarian who wasn't even a collector.
The coin, thought to be one of only two 1866 silver dollars minted without the inscription "In God We Trust," is estimated to be worth at least $1 million.
The "No Motto Dollar" was among thousands of coins taken during an armed robbery at the Willis du Pont residence in Coconut Grove, Fla., in October 1967. Most of the best-known coins taken in the unsolved heist have been recovered, leaving the 1866 coin as the most famous still at large.
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The coin, thought to be one of only two 1866 silver dollars minted without the inscription "In God We Trust," is estimated to be worth at least $1 million.
The "No Motto Dollar" was among thousands of coins taken during an armed robbery at the Willis du Pont residence in Coconut Grove, Fla., in October 1967. Most of the best-known coins taken in the unsolved heist have been recovered, leaving the 1866 coin as the most famous still at large.
story (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-03-03-rare-coin_x.htm)