Rare 1776 continental dollar coin found inside toffee tin to be auctioned
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One dollar will be worth a lot more than that — as a rare 1776 continental dollar coin is set to go to auction next month.
Wotton Auction Rooms told CBS News in an email that one of its clients brought in their collection to be sold, and the haul contained several 18th and 19th-century items. Auctioneers for the Gloucestershire, England-based auction house sorted through the hundreds of pieces that were brought in the toffee tin when they found the coin near the bottom. The coin initially "looked rather dull and boring," the auction house said.
"It was one of the last objects to be examined. Once work started, we thought that the chances were that it could well be a copy, although everything else within the tin had been genuine and of a very good standard," Wotton Auction Rooms said.
