Let me start off by saying knowning the password since the 28th of sept. and finally getting the key on friday and just now taking the trip on wednesday I was really sweating bullets on if someone else was going to get to that pyramid before me, within that time frame but I managed to keep it quiet on the forums, didn't want to stir up competition telling them that "hey I know the password, but have no key" lol so here goes the story.

Riddle was:

On this 8th lies a skyscraper, but this one is only 12,
The 1st American built and an honorary member,
Name that which the hand offers to a king.

On this 8th lies a skyscraper, but this one is only 12
Now from reading previous posts ppl claimed it was in New York, so I based on that assumption and so I started looking up skyscrapers on 8th that were 12 storys but skyscrapers are deemed a skyscraper by being over 12 storys so it made it difficult to search and somewhere between keywords of skyscraper, 8th and 12 I finally had a result talking about this picture here img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Z3r0_San1ty/IMG00301.jpg, This burger is known as the "SkyScraper Burger" which is 12 ounces of meat. Which is this burger is created at a place called the "Cooper's Tavern". So of course then I decided to find out who this Cooper Guy first name is Which is Peter Cooper.

The 1st American built and an honorary member
Peter Cooper was the first american that manufactured the first steam powered railroad locomotive made in America, which was called Tom Thumb. He was also and Honorary member of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art to the City of New York As well as inducted into the National Inventers Hall Of Fame. Now going on that information, since he built the locomotive called "Tom Thumb" I decided to look up Tom Thumb.

Name that which the hand offers to a king.
Tom Thumb brought up a tale between him and King Arthur, story went that King Arthur and his wife wanted a son, or possibly wife only and Merlin brought Tom Thumb into the world which he was only as big as a thumb hence the name most likely, and was given to King Arthur and his wife.

So by that point I had a good lock on the riddle just needed to figure out the password, This is where I stepped way out of the box when it came to finding this password out. Tom thumb never gave anything to King Arthur so I kept looking around to see who gave what to the King which I even thought the password could of been Merlin, maybe his Wife, or someone else. King Arthur which most know is commonly told amongst storys of "Excalibur" with the "Sword in the stone" storys, So thinking "Excalibur" was too easy for a password I started to dig around, and my mistake was I only put Excalibur to the Sword in the stone tale, and did not read the fine print that there were 2 swords given to king Arthur. One was given to him by the Lady in the lake, Which the other sword was presented to him in sword of the stone tales. It wasn't till a lil after on searching harder into Excalibur about what this first sword was called until I seen pictures of "the lady in the lake" reaching out of the water with "Excalibur" in hand giving it to King Arthur has he was on a boat with Merlin. So by this time I knew Excalibur was the password or tied into it somehow, that is when looking up Excalibur on Wiki, it told me "In Welsh legend, Arthur's sword is known as Caledfwlch." Looking at that I thought that could be it. So when I got my time to check the password checker online and put that password in it said "Congratulation. Your password attempt was correct. To collect your reward you must visit the pyramid and provide the password again." 

Without saying anything else obvisiously I knew I had the password correct, so I planned my trip for Wednesday with my girlfriend to New York. This is where the fun took place when we arrived  to the "Cooper's Tavern" the pyramid was sitting right up above some glasses behind the bar, seen below.

I told the waiter I would like to speak to someone about the golden pyramid sitting above the bar, which is when I met Teddy the owner of it, so he picked up the phone to  dial to SW about my password.......2 Hours later and I think he left about 3 messages on the answering machine (guess the 24/7 service wasn't availble last night lol), after we've eaten in the place we started to get worried on what to do that Puzz hasn't called back yet to the tavern, The bar owner eventually told me that they didnt want me to wait around forever and he thought it should be fine to open it since I knew the password and had the key, I was being sketchy at first cuz I didnt want to void anything on the coin for not having Puzz concent, so I started talking with Anash via text and asked him If I should take the coin, and leave the password and my key number so when Puzz gets back to the owner he can deliver the message to him, he said it seemed like the right thing to do, so thats what I did. Which below has the video of the pyramid being brought over by the owner of the bar to me and opened and closed, and yes I had some trouble opening the lock and locking in on figuring out which way the key went into the pyramid which you can see on video lol. So yes Cornette that is the 2nd gold coin, 1 from the statue of liberty, and 2. from the coopers tavern.

Today I did get a message from anash saying Puzz talked to him finally yesterday and did say my password was correct and got back to the bar owner about all the info I gave so it is Legit :)

Here is the video of the pyramid opened and closed taking the gold coin.(50 seconds long)

smg.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Z3r0_San1ty/

Now lemme first start off by saying the reason I kept myself quiet for this time of when I was going was because 1. last time I made a post of my trip someone got there a day before me to claim a coin, and 2. a tourist of some sort snagged the other coin as well so I came up empty handed that day. So without further a doo here it goes again (mind you I wrote it out once already and it got deleted by accident  ) the clues stated:
 
"Often known as big red, big red,take a step in the right direction,and you may get lucky."

 Now looking at it I started to wonder if Puzz is still keeping the pattern of placing 2 coins in same states so to speak as for example the central park had 2 coins in it, thinking on that logic I knew where the June 3 coin was and started to think of other landmarks in the area but looking up on google for a "big red apple" didn't work out so well so I started to think outside the box studying the clues and thinking ok Bolts and New York, Bolts and New York, then it reading more into the clue of "take a step in the right direction" not sure why but it brought me to start thinking of the Statue of Liberty, I guess with the torch being in her right hand not to mention the statue is built with bolts and nuts to hold together for a structure, going on a hunch of like thinking that this was the spot I took the gamble and setup the plans for today with my girlfriend to visit the Statue of liberty on a wimb. So here I am or atleast on the island that is.>  take the risk with the girlfriend wondering if its a fools run and How I may not evenbe in the right location. So enjoying the visit looking around we started to accend up the stairs to the observation and looking around I'm seeing lots of bolts so it had me even more confident thinking I was in the right spot, further up the stairs we came across some Really Big bolts and looking at the picture clue some more and looked at the nut, they were identical so I started looking around some and noticed there were a bunch of lil dark holes that looked like they could of been the spot to wherre the coin could of been hiding so what did I do? That's right my girlfriend and I started to feel around in the holes not realizing what we were even sticking our hands into other than dust and probably grease, But as it is going uup the steps reaching in every hole we could find near those bolts we came up empty handed during the accend upward, a lil dissappointed for not finding the coin going up the stairs we eventually got tired of being up so high and decided to start to decend, while we were decending down the steps we came across more of those bolts & and nuts and I told my girlfriend to start checking the holes as we decend we still could have chance of finding it, for the most part we came up empty handed some more decending down the steps checking the holes till about 14 dark holes later my hand finally grabbed a felt like bag and out of shock I yelled to my girlfriend that Ifound the coin, so with that in mind and excitment I took the bag and we quickly decended down the steps, knowning that I was confident that this was the coin so we took the bag outside so we could see better where I unwrapped the black bag, finding out this was a gold coin in the bag and not a silver one I was in shock I pretty much was speechless for a few mins till I could catch my breathe again.  I guess you could say I got really luck for going on a hunch thinking it was the location and just sticking my hand in random holes up the stairwel in hopes of finding it so I'd say for the clue of "You may get lucky" I suppose I really was for finding it, That sums of the story of the coin Thanks for reading and Happy Hunting and Thanks SW for giving me the chance. Below I will link the Location of where the coin was actually hiding and the other link will be the unveiling of the gold coin.

Edit: Gold coin direct link fixed.

Location of the coin:(28 seconds long)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Z3r0_San1ty/?action=view&current=location.flv

Gold coin unveiling:(25 seconds long)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v105/Z3r0_San1ty/?action=view&current=goldcoin.flv

New Ink in the making....more to be added Phase 1 of 3 I believe the artist said :D

weeee my tongue is now gauged to an 8 :D

Going to try and sum this up quick and easy for the vacation I just had in North Carolina with Jen and relatives of mine,got sunburnt on the back of my neck and feet, rode the inhouse elevator many times, went crabbing, got ripped off for fishing, jet skii'd for an hr, dropped about 800.00 that whole week, attempted to fly a kite, went bodysurfing,bodyboarding,skimboarding, seen dolphins on a boat, seen more dolphins 50 feet away from me in the ocean, swam in the poool, soaked in the jacuzzi,played mini golf about 3 courses and got my ass kicked on one course by jen,lost 5 bucks in poker finishing out in 4th place out of 8 ppl, watched alot of Kenshin the anime,took video of the trip will get scenes up when this computer wants to be nice to me. That sumed it up now everything i said went double with Jen she was with me for pretty much everything which made it alot more fun.