Annie Oakley Coin: Watch the Case Online
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
A contributor from Bath, Maine has an 1853 French Napoleon coin with a bent, split edge and a great bit of family lore: it’s said that the coin was shot by Annie Oakley and that Annie herself gave the coin to two of the contributor’s great-grand uncles. History Detectives conducts ballistics tests to find out. Watch. (Originally aired: Season 6, Episode 1).
Click here for more: http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigations/601_annieoakleycoin.html
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