featured in a “Hawaii Five-0? episode titled “the $100,000 Nickel,” sold at an Orlando, Fla., auction Thursday for more than $3.7 million, the auctioneer reported.
Only five 1913 Liberty Head nickels are known to exist. The coin sold Thursday, called the Olsen specimen, is considered the most famous of the five because of its starring role in the “Hawaii Five-0? episode that originally aired in 1973.
In a description of the coin, Heritage Auction Galleries, said the original coin was seen only in close-ups. For other scenes, the coin had a “stunt double.”
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