Expert: Jim Lawniczak - 6/25/2007

Question
hi can you tell me if they made a 100.00 dollar lewis and clark coin
http://i3.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/a6/e1/aebc_1.JPG
im trying to sell it and i want to know how much it would be worth or any thing about it basicly
and this is the back
http://i21.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/a6/e1/afb6_1.JPG


Answer
This was made by the "sovereign nation" of the Shawnee tribe.  I don't know if the Shawnee tribe is honoring these pieces for $100 or not (probably not).  If the piece is silver (and I can't tell from the picture), it would be worth silver value (currently about $12 per ounce).  Most of these pieces made by "sovereign nations" are nor really honored by those "nations."  They are just making money by selling them.  I went to www.ebay.com and did a search for Lewis Clark Shawnee.  And a 3 ounce supposedly gold piece came up for sale -- it has a face value of $500 from the Shawnee nation, but if it really is gold, then at $644/ounce current price, it would be worth way more than the $500.  Someone is trying to sell that piece for almost $2000, but so far anyway has no takers.  Try going to www.google.com and doing a similar search for Lewis Clark Shawnee and see what comes up.  Jim Lawniczak