Photo credit: Donn Pearlman

Close up of the 1913 Liberty Head nickel owned by George Walton of North Carolina,
and moments after it was authenticated as genuine during the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money® convention in Baltimore.

Photo credit: Donn Pearlman

A close up of George Walton's 1913 Liberty Head nickel in the custom holder Walton had made for it.
This photo was shot soon after the coin was brought by three of Walton's relatives to the American Numismtic Association's World's Fair of Money® in Baltimore.

Photo credit: Donn Pearlman

The authentication process begins: John Dannreuther and Mark Borckardt, vice president of Bowers and Merena Galleries, take turns examining George Walton's 1913 Liberty Head nickel shortly after the coin arrived in Baltimore at the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money® convention.

Photo credit: Donn Pearlman

Using an enlarged photograph of the Eliasberg/Manley/Lee 1913 Liberty Head nickel as a starting reference point, Bowers and Merena Galleries President Paul Montgomery begins his examination of the Walton specimen.
Late that night, Montgomery and a half dozen other numismatists compared the Walton coin side-by-side to the actual specimens of the four other 1913 Liberty Head nickels that had just arrived at the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money® convention in Baltimore.

Photo credit: Donn Pearlman

Exhausted but happy at 12:15 a.m., the numismatists who had just finished authenticating George Walton's 1913 Liberty Head nickel as genuine: (top row, left to right) David Hall, Fred Weinberg, Jeff Garrett, (bottom row, left to right) John Dannreuther, Paul Montgomery and Mark Borckardt. (Not pictured: Lawrence Lee.)
The five genuine 1913 Liberty Head nickels, on the table in front of them, are reunited for the first time in more than 60 years.