encourage the revelation of these e-mails from wikileaks, that s one thing and roger stone traditionally has a touchy relationship with the truth. so i think a lot of these things are going to come out in short order. keep us posted on the next chapter of roger goode roger st. and what s going to come of this commemorative coin? we ll talk to a coin collector about why people are totally geeking out on this coin. and how much of the gas price increases have to do with president trump exiting the iran deal? melatonin is the body s own sleep ingredient.
fletcher, owner of allied coin. the man that was murdered was a coin collector. gloria thought she was being brought down to give them information about virgil. but detectives suspected gloria of orchestrating the deadly home robbery. then they just started attacking me. you are 234 in trouble. we have been talking to a lot of people. your name has come up. in what regard? that s what i wanted you to tell me. we know you planned this. we know that you know everything that happened. and i just went, huh? detectives believed gloria had coaxed information from virgil about ed davies hidden treasure. they asked her questions. do you know ed davies? and she says, i don t think so. well, have you been to his house? her response is, well, if i don t know him, i don t think i ve been to his house. i have a tendency to be a little flip when i m nervous. gloria also insisted she had never met alleged perpetrators
tried to sell it to someone, that was illegal. jamie: the secret service returns the nickel but warns the family never to try to pass it off as the real mccoy. in the meantime, george walton s reputation as an an esteemed coin collector takes a posthumous beating. it was just a piece of junk, so it was put in with the odds and ends. so my mom picked up the 1913, she was born in 1913, so that could have been reason. my other thought was she wanted it put away permanently jamie: to protect his reputation? right. in other words, try to keep it from getting any worse. jamie: melva givens never wavers in her belief that her brother george had the real nickel somewhere in his vast coin collection. but she accepts that the one in her closet really is a fake. she had some coin magazines, newspaper articles that kind of kept up with other 1913s, so she knew he had it, she just
put away. jamie: five specimens made their first appearance in chicago at a 1920 convention. the seller? surprise, surprise, samuel brown. seven years later the statute of limitations had passed for any crime that might have been committed, so all of a sudden there s a huge story that five coins that had never existed were now going to be at the chicago coin club show. jamie: four years later all five coins are purchased by a single wealthy collector for $3,000. $2,000. it s not until the early 1940s in st. louis that the set of five nickels is sold in public again. egypt s king farooq scoops one up for his collection, and the following year so does a prominent coin collector from roanoke, virginia, ryan givens uncle, george walton. enter the enigmatic benefactor of our strange inheritance.
around. reporter: and when they do, rick snyder is there to scoop it up. from the side of the road, from the change dispensers at local car washes. convenience stores are another place you find money. reporter: snyder is what you d call a coin collector, but not the kind that typically comes to mind. this started on a whim a little more than ten years ago picking up the change others so carelessly discarded while he was out doing his daily feedings of his cats. i started accumulating it just to see how much i could find, and it snowballed from there. reporter: from this, to this. $21,495. perfectly divvied up in 150 planter s peanut jars. and snyder wanted to donate every single dime and quarter, nickel and penny, too. i said i d like to make a donation, but there s a it s going to be cumbersome. very surprised, yeah. shocked.