Authentic BIB FORTUNA coin from the famous “Bucket Coin find”

Coin is authentic

Coin has wear and oxidation as seen in photos.

If you are looking to complete your POTF coin set look no further as this is one of the harder coins to get.

A quick synopsis of where this coin came from:

A few years ago to be more precise it was 2018 when somebody found a bucket full of extremely rare Star Wars POTF coins at a yard sale and then they were subsequently sold individually on eBay now dubbed “the bucket find”. I was lucky enough to exchange a few emails with the Upchurch family out of Sterns, Kentucky on the first day they were listed, and even cherry picked a few that were never listed before a lot of the big resellers stepped in and bought the entire collection. The coins are not in good condition as some were damaged and some were touched up as it was assumed the coins got wet in the bucket and that obviously affected their condition. I was most intrigued by just how many rare coins the find turned up as some of them were CAT IV and V mailer coins aka some of the rarest SW coins around. It was speculated that the family whom owned them had a family member who passed away that worked for Kenner and some of the coins could have even been prototypes. As I stated earlier I was lucky enough to have contacted the Upchurch family, I was offered the entire collection but the price kept going up daily as more and more collectors became aware of the coins, but I never got to the bottom of exactly where the coins came from or whom they originally belonged to. The Upchurch family would tell me one story after another but I believe they just wanted to cash out and didn’t really care for the history behind the coins as most true collectors do. It’s a great memory but also a mystery that hopefully somebody will solve and fill me in on. Cheers and MTFBW