ryan, tell me more about uncle george. >> i like to refer to him as a professional collector. he had a pretty decent stamp collection. he had books, almanacs, but coins were his main thing. >> truth be told, ryan doesn't know his uncle george well, and neither, it seems, does anyone else. he's a lifelong bachelor and successful estate appraiser, a job that keeps him constantly on the move. he lives in a series of hotels from north carolina to florida. exactly how walton came to acquire his 1913 nickel is equally murky. the most oft-told story is that in 1946, he trades $3,750 worth of gold for the rare nickel. the seller, the story goes, may or may not be an heir to the camel cigarette fortune. >> it was said a member of the tobacco reynolds family, so we can assume that it may have been r.j. reynolds. >> however he acquires it, the 1913 nickel gives walton a special status on the coin-show circuit. >> it was a calling card of sorts because if you were one of the owners of a 1913 nickel, you were an important collector. >> walton plays the role of swaggering, inscrutable colle

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my father and my uncle george actuallyld would go to school sometimes in flour sacks made up by their mother. my mother's mother lived with us and she was from yugoslavia and could barely speak english. so you can just imagine the family was not living the high life. and i decided when i graduated from high school i would make a big change so i made a dramatic decision to go 180 miles to the west to the little school called ohio state university. when i got there i found myself in the towers. you have seen them on rstelevision. it was 23 floors high and filled with 18 -year-old freshman boys who had never been away from home before. then next-door was a duplicate tower filled with 18 -year-old freshman girls who had never been away from home before. and later in the downtown of columbus they would refer to the towers as sodom and gomorrah which was pretty true. [laughter] i had 15 college roommates. i have been to the dorms here in miami but i can imagine you don't have anything that is that crazy. there's a lot of things that went wrong early on. with classes in bureaucracy but my un